Julien Veytizou

Design of a Clip Product Based on Customer Needs for Playing Acoustic Music

Inclusion of uses and users in product design remains a challenge to take up; especially when their characterizations are very specific (it’s the case with disabled persons). In the musical domain, a lot of adapted interfaces are manufactured to enable users with disabilities to play music from digital audio. But few of them allow the music practice on acoustic instruments, which is one of the goal identified by the AE2M non-profit association (Ergonomic Adaptation of the Musical Material). In this specific context, this paper presents the design of a universal product which transforms any user environment object to a personalized interface, to play percussion instruments.

How 3D printing technologies can contribute into an iterative design process? Case study to hit a drum for Disabled Children

In the Assistive Technology area and design for disability, users must be taken into account during the design process. Multidisciplinary design team is constituted and an adapted design methodology used. In this design case study, this team has to develop an electromechanical drumstick dedicated to percussion instruments. Objective is to allow Disabled Children to hit a drum using an automated drumstick. Authors proposed to used of available Rapid Prototyping (RP) Technologies all along the design process. Different RP technologies were manipulated by engineerins and engineering students to be able to validate progressively product functions and news ideas and designs. The results indicates that one RP technology can be chosen in correlation with a new iteration of the design methodology. The availability of RP technologies helps the multidisciplinary team to validate progressively the product according to requirements. This experiment contributes to the development of different prototypes over the years.

Use of Kinect Tool to Measure the Physical Capabilities of Patients for Wolf Motor Function Test in Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble (CHU)

This study was performed in the G-SCOP Research laboratory in collaboration with Grenoble University Hospital Center (CHU) in France. The objective is to develop a tool for the automatic evaluation of motor skills of patients in clinical settings. The proposed method takes place in the context of medical activities carried out daily at this Hospital. Our study was in physiotherapy department to standardize the assessment phases of motor skills using Microsoft Kinect sensor. In our research, physiotherapists proposed to work on the WMFT (The Wolf Motor Function Test) measurement protocol which is recognized and used regularly for patient evaluation. In the first stage, it is tried to understand the protocol together with required elements. Then, a Kinect tool is prepared for the model which can be able to connect two points: the combination of the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) with the Kinect output. Our initial experimental results of testing on both patients and 10 healthy persons in the G-SCOP laboratory showed the capability of the tool to measure the activities of the WMFT protocol. Furthermore, the results of this study can be the bases of future researches for the use of the Kinect in this domain and implementation of this tool directly in the Grenoble hospital.