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September 2025 Team Meetings

Team meetings discussing multiple design solution pros and cons

Hour long weekly meetings were held (throughout the duration of the project), where the team gathers to discuss early design solutions. Shorter daily meetings were also scheduled (throughout the project) to ensure each team member is continuing their individual work and the project is moving forward.

Design Options for Angle Measurement

The team discusses and writes out ideas to determine if Motion Capture or Sensors should be used for angle measurements to track exercise accuracy.

Jeremy pointing at the whiteboard while Hisham writes. Jasmine is at the table watching. The whiteboard shows the beginning stages for pros and cons of the Motion Capture and Sensor solutions for measuring hand angles.
Jeremy and Hisham are standing looking at Jasmine. Hisham looks confused and the team is mid discussion and clarification discussing motion capture set up.
Jeremy and Hisham looking at the whiteboard while Jasmine is writing. The whiteboard shows the beginning stages for pros and cons of the Motion Capture and Sensor solutions for measuring hand angles.

Design Options for Resistance Training

The team discusses many different resistance elements, one of which will be used in the prototype. Ideas discussed include: Electro-active polymers, Magneto-Rheological and Electro-Rheological (MR/ER) fluid, friction sliders, soft pneumatic actuators (balloons), motors, springs and elastic bands.

Close up of Jasmine writing "Inflate to add resistance" under the title "Soft Pneumatic balloon" on the whiteboard.
Jasmine and Stephanie sitting at the round table with index fingers overlapping. They are trying to understand how friction sliders would be implemented as resistive elements in the device.

October 2025 Team Meetings

Team meetings reviewing initial design solutions

The team continues to work together to bring the project together, such as finalizing the Motion Capture decision, a novel approach in TCNJ Biomedical Engineering Department for hand-based projects. Clinical and practices applicable to our project were established through connections with additional advisors from Mercer Buck Orthopaedics which is vital to the success of the project.

November 2025 Team Meetings

Team meetings discussing multiple design solution pros and cons

The team discuses specific technical implementation, such as the attachment mechanism of the resistance device.

December 2025 Team Meetings

Finalization of design solution

End of Semester

The team presented their final solution at TCNJ with the rest of the class of 2026.

2026 Team Meetings

February 2026 Team Meetings

The start of the new semester was led with the order and initial prototyping of the device.

The application and communication layout for users and their PTs, as well as the physical band and clip aspects of the resistance glove are discussed and developed.

March 2026 Team Meetings

Advances in the development and debugging of the H.O.M.E. Software as well as attaching the guide clips to the resistance glove

Stephanie and Jasmine working on their laptops with the mini PC and monitor used for the H.O.M.E. device.

The team meets and runs through the H.O.M.E. software after discussing updates on the project. All parts are ordered and application development is underway.

The PC and monitor used for the H.O.M.E. device, with external mouse and keyboard connected.
Jeremy Testing the H.O.M.E. application and tendon gliding position identification software with a small wooden model hand in the hook position, one of five in the tendon gliding exercise

Software development and testing with the Google Mediapipe Hand Landmarkers on a wooden hand model. Shown on the right is the hand in a hook position, one of 5 in the tendon gliding exercise.