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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 Hes 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 Brians 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 users 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: Its Still A Terrible Accident Uncle Brian has been riding his Suzuki for years Hes 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 hes exercising 18

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Back on the Bike in No Time 19 http://utdallas.edu/~bxm133330/TestPgm/TherGuide.html