Problem Discovery and Selection
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Motivation
Combined each member’s passion with the feasibility of the project to determine what our project should be.
Broader Impacts
Advance the field of surgical tools to make surgeries more accurate and cheaper and to solve an issue that currently exists within the medical field.
Market Selection Process
Our market selection process included brainstorming markets of interest, narrowing the markets down, interviewing experts within each respective field, presenting our findings and using rank choice voting to decide on one market.
Stakeholders
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Identities
Hospitals, Medical Practitioners (Surgeons, Nurses, Physical Therapists), Patients, Families, and insurance companies.
Perspectives:
From our conversations with surgeons, physical therapists, and patients we found that development of more specific tools will lead to Improved time, cost, and efficiency for different procedures. Additionally, better tools will help with post-surgery recovery.
Assumptions
Some assumptions about the problem were made to narrow down our ideas. These include surgery being more time effective, cost-effective and the recovery time after surgery could be improved.
Functional Requirements
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Objectives & Constraints
To better define our solution, objectives that are soft goals for our design to have, as well as constraints that our design must follow are outlined. These guidelines are accompanied by measurable specifications and metrics, which are described and justified.