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Therapy Guide An App for Assisting With Home Physical Therapy Routines THE FEARLESS FIVE ESE6361 - Requirements Engineering – Fall 2013 Final Presentation
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As-is: A Terrible Motorcycle Accident Uncle Brian has been riding his Suzuki for years He’s cut off by a driver His foot catches as he drops the bike He suffers a Tibial Plateau Fracture Basically, his knee explodes He also cracks his shoulder 2
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A Physical Therapy Routine After hospitalization and rehab Brian gets regular physical therapy In addition to his three times per week at the therapist He is prescribed a long list of daily exercises 3
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The List is Difficult to Follow Brian is overwhelmed trying to follow the list He spends two hours per day counting and setting timers 4
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Brian Gets Frustrated Brian’s frustration grows each day His healing takes longer Eventually he gives up and sells his Suzuki 5
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The Problem - Decomposed 6 Quick Healing via Therapy & Exercise Other Factors Counting & Timing Exercises is Tedious + Exercise is Hard, Long & Boring –
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Class Diagram Domain Model 7 Enters Prescription Runs On To Be Exercise Manager
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Domain Environment – Use Cases 8
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A Data Flow Diagram 9 ‹‹actor›› Therapist ‹‹actor›› Therapist ‹‹actor›› Patient ‹‹actor›› Patient ‹‹process›› SetupRoutine ‹‹process›› SetupRoutine ‹‹datastore›› Routine ‹‹datastore›› Routine ‹‹process›› ExecuteRoutine Timing & Counting Prescribed Routine (out of scope)
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Design Solution A Smartphone Application Prototype using web technologies: HTML, JavaScript, CSS Initial target, Windows Phone 8 Others possible – need an HTML5 compatible browser Two Screens One for “running” the exercise routine Simple to use – one button operation Audible feedback One for setting up the set of exercises Easy, touch-oriented operation 10
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A Demonstration 11
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Our Process 12
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Key Project Discriminators Team Diversity – Promotes Innovation Different personal backgrounds: ethnicity, age, and gender. The only team with women Team comes from four different countries Understanding the user’s Physical Therapy needs 80% of team has been through Physical Therapy The rest of the team has had friends/family in Physical Therapy Everyone agrees that home exercise is tedious We have a fully working Prototype Includes all functionality And, we have a second, production version, partially coded 13
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Project Scope Creep 14 User Interface Enhancements Planned – 10% Actual – 8%
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To-Be: It’s Still A Terrible Accident Uncle Brian has been riding his Suzuki for years He’s cut off by a driver His foot catches as he drops the bike He suffers a Tibial Plateau Fracture Basically, his knee explodes He also cracks his shoulder 15
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The Hospital, Rehab & Therapy After hospitalization and rehab Brian gets regular physical therapy In addition to his three times per week at the therapist He is prescribed a long list of daily exercises 16
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But Now, A Smartphone App After Brian gets home from therapy He sets up his exercise routine in his smartphone 17
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Exercise is Much More Pleasant Now Brian lets the smartphone do the counting and timing He can listen to his favorite music while he’s exercising 18
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Back on the Bike in No Time 19 http://utdallas.edu/~bxm133330/TestPgm/TherGuide.html
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