My partner is a cool boy who loves to play computer games and watches movies on the computer at home.
What are their desires/challenges/difficulties?
He encounters the difficulties that when he plays computer games, he can’t play the game requiring both hands because his left hand could not move well.
What is your project? Redefine if needed
Because the idea came up just recent days (As we moved the idea from the writing board to this, since that board is not the real need for him. We’d like to change to a new idea that could be realized within a short period of times). We right now only have a rough idea:
We’d like to propose a controller that could control by his right foot so that by substituting the left hand to the left foot, he can play games that require two hands.
We bought 4 pedal keyboards and one USB hub from Taobao. By using the software Taobao provides, we set the 4 keys to “S”/”W”/”A”/”D”. 4 pedals are connected to the USB hub and the USB hub should connect to my partner’s computer. Then we stick them on a paperboard, which makes 4 pedals more stable.
Development process. Include photos and video(s)
Since he was not in the class last week, we can’t tell whether his left foot could also move or not. So we assume that his left foot cannot move as he is having cerebral palsy on the left side of his body.
We first assemble 4 padels in this way
However, we found that in this position, the user could easily be tired as the user has to move the foot position quite oftenly.
Then we change the padel in this position
We found that in this position, the user only has to change the foot’s direction from left to right when the user needs to click S+D. Apart from that, every click and combination could be click in the left food direction.
Next Step
Meet him, test it with him
Install the keyboard in his house under his permission.
