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FEATHERS - Functional Engagement in Assisted Therapy through Exercise Robotics
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FEATHERS is a collaboration between Emily Carr and a group of engineers and researchers at UBC under the direction of Prof. Mike van der Loos. It is about using computer games as motivation to aid the upper-limb rehabilitation for adults who have suffered stroke and children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy where they have weakness in one side of their bodies. I have developed a pair of bi-manual game controllers that will allow the these two disparate groups of users to play facebook games with both their hands and arms on the computer for therapy.
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During the fall semester of 2011, I embarked on a "undergraduate" project for the term that aimed to create a communicative support system for online gamers. Gamers are currently hindered with communications across platforms and gaming mediums (consoles, pc, smart phone, etc.). As each developer, producer, etc. attempts to build their own community they seemingly forget that the gaming community does not retain to one console or game. Hence, as gamers move around and change games much of the communication is lost between friends that are made. In order to allow these relationships to continue, a medium was conceived to bridge this gap. Many gamers that continue to communicate build relationships that last months if not years. This is a rising trend I aimed to aid with my project.
