A Wearable Device For Postoperative Breast Cancer Rehabilitation With Machine Learning For Motion Tracking

Abstract

The FuschiaBand prototype is a wearable device designed to assist breast cancer patients during physical therapy rehabilitation following a major surgical procedure. Its overall purpose is to enable and track physical therapy exercises within the homes of breast cancer patients to reduce the associated costs to travel to physical therapy facilities. Reducing costs and travel time for these patients is the principal goal that led to creation of this device. The space of wearable technology today fixates on maximizing the embedded features within but disregards the convenience and practicality across specific user populations. This prototype was developed as a term project by graduate students at the University of Washington, Global Innovation Exchange’s Technology Innovation program. The prototype is built on a single-board Arduino microcontroller platform base and enclosed within a 3D printed case to form a wearable device.