
This work in progress explores tangible interaction in the context of scraping tools commonly used in physical Therapy. Physical therapy is a health profession which uses mechanical force or motion to improve a person's mobility and physical motion. We began with an open-ended research through design process that resulted in a scraping tool that gives the PT feedback on applied force using embedded pressure sensors and an ambient light display. At the conference, we will display a prototype interactive scraping tool and several other design artifacts. We invite participants to use the tool on a human calf simulant made from ballistics gel. We hope our work-in-progress will encourage new work exploring tangible interaction and physical therapy.
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