Digital-Bracers: A Design Process for an Interactive Monitoring Generative System That Helps People with Hand Movements

Abstract

In the post-New Crown epidemic era, people need to face a period of physical recovery after being infected with New Crown, especially when there are frequent cases of deaths due to over-aggressive or excessive physical exercise after healing, or due to people’s concerns about safety hazards, or loss of interest and adherence to fitness due to exercising alone, among other problems. In this paper, we design a complete interactive monitoring generation system for wrist brace components, Digital-Bracers, which consists of both hardware and software. The hardware has integrated textile heart rate monitoring and integrated sensors in a three-lead configuration for a textile-based digital wrist brace that conforms to human comfort. The software is a visualized app with pulse rate, speed, and frequency, oscillation rhythm, content generation social connectivity, etc. The software and hardware are connected via WI-FI or Bluetooth. Through exploration of materials, ergonomics, and textile wrist guard construction, we designed an experimental process and tested Digital-Bracers to determine the system’s performance through peak heart rate detection and noise interference. The contribution of the Digital-Bracers Interactive Monitoring and Generation System is the ability to monitor one’s own health in real-time during hand exercise to avoid potential risks, while at the same time, The Digital-Bracers Interactive Monitoring System contributes to the real-time monitoring of one’s health during hand movements to avoid potential risks, and to the generation of a variety of different sounds to bring a sense of fulfillment and enjoyment to the hand movements.