TremCasso
The objective of this project is to propose a tool that helps people suffering from tremor to enjoy drawing and coloring again. Drawing and coloring are activities that help with stress or entertainment or simply expressing oneself through art. However, people with tremor struggle with these tasks. We want to remedy this by providing a haptic-enabled tool to overcome the tremor and make these people enjoy coloring again.
Video submission for the World Haptics Conference 2023 in Delft, NL.
Motivation
Drawing and coloring are basic activities that many people enjoy. However, people with tremor struggle to hold a pen, pencil, or marker steadily enough to make the art piece that they would like. Many of us were introduced to coloring through coloring books where we needed to color inside the lines. This got us to think, what if you actually could not go past these lines? What force feedback made it difficult to color outside the lines? And what if the tool used dampened the effects of tremor so that a more predictable streak could be drawn? The haptic device we are working with, the Haply 2diy, is perfectly suited for these tasks.
