Breeze's Week 4 Blog

The project I'm working on is test bed 4 which is the hydraulic patient transfer device and my task is to integrate the microsoft xbox kinect into a virtual human simulation called Jack to anylyze the stresses that caretakers or nurses would experience while operating the transfer device. The challenges I had to overcome was actually getting the kinect to work in Jack. My co-workers, Kiffinae and Aaron, all contributed and helped get the kinect to work with Jack yesterday! Talk about a great accomplishment after playing with it for days.

The goal of the project is to make use of the patient transfer device easier to use for the nurses and care takers and to reduce the strain on those individuals operating the transfer device. Its not a matter of if we're successful its a matter of when, but when that day comes the impact will be exceptional. Less strain on the nurses/caretakers will result in efficient work and better care for the patient. 

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I’m assisting one of the grad students with test bed 4 which is the hydraulic patient transfer device. The task I was given was to try and use a Microsoft Xbox Kinect in Jack simulation, Jack is a type of software that is an ergonomic assessment as well as a virtual human prototyping system. With the Kinect integrated into Jack, the programmer could use his or her body movements to move the virtual human  throughout the environment.  This reduces the time for the operator to manually assign tasks for the virtual human to complete. (saves a few clicks of the mouse). Let me know if you have any questions