Appendix A: Project Definition
Appendix A gives an overview of our team’s purpose, goals, and guidelines.
Project Name: Shirt Horn
Client: Meghan O’Donnell, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Team members: Dipayan Banerjee, Noah Feilbogen, Jake Reifer, and Eshan Surana
Date: March 12, 2016
Mission Statement
To design an innovative, portable system to assist Elsa, an 8 yearold user with arthrogryposis, in
putting on and taking off a school uniform in under 5 minutes through minimal effort and in
order to save Mary time and increase the user’s independence in everyday tasks.
Project Deliverables
● A working prototype of the design personalized for the primary user.
● A formal report describing the process and design.
● A poster and presentation detailing the design.
Constraints:
● Must cost under $100.
● Process must take under 5 minutes to complete.
Users / Stakeholders
● User Elsa, an 8 year old girl with arthrogryposis (the main user)
● Mary, the user’s mother (who will assist in setting up the system daily)
● Meghan (who will teach the user to use the system)
● Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (who will provide the space and support in which the
user will learn to use the system to dress independently)
● Other people with arthrogryposis who use powered wheelchairs
Table 3 shows the requirements and the specifications of our design and project.
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