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Periodic measurement of nighttime weight change while asleep Week: September 8- September 15 Client: Timothy Juergens, M.D. UW/VA Hospitals Geriatric psychiatrist/sleep specialist Phone: 239-3030 (cell) E-mail: [email protected] Advisor: Wally F. Block Tel: 608/265-9686 E-mail: [email protected] Team: Kyle Herzog – Team Leader Ben Engel – Communications Joe Ferris – BWIG Eric Printz - BSAC Problem Statement We would like to be able to measure this weight change accurately on people who are in hospital beds, and be able to view and record the weight changes over various intervals through the night (such as weighing a person who agrees to lay in bed all night at intervals of every 10-15 minutes). This is important from a research perspective on numerous potential variables that may affect this weight change, such as medications as well as sleep stage changes. We would also use this to potentially track and eventually predict those at higher risk of developing obesity, correlate with body fat measurements, activity, and assess for metabolic changes when we do things to improve/correct sleep problems. There is popular concern in the most recent sleep literature about various sleep stages, insomnia, and their impact on obesity. This scale would likely have to support a hospital bed, which sits on 4 legs, and read at an accuracy ideally around 0.02- 0.05 lbs (many scales on the market record to such accuracy, the more accurate the better). I'm not sure how the zeroed weight of the bed would affect this. Ideally it would be a device we could move to a different bed without too much difficulty (such as in 1-2 hours time), without too complex recalibration.Last Week’s Goals • Choose project • Form team and exchange information • Begin work on design notebook • Have first team meeting Accomplishments • We were assigned our project and all team members exchanged all relevant contact information with one another • Team member roles were decided upon • We e-mailed our advisor all relevant contact information • We had our first meeting after the BMES kickoff and e-mailed our client to set up a meeting to discuss the project This Week’s Goals • Meet with Dr. Juergens to discuss project • Do individual research on past similar designs • Meet with Dr. Block and get some starting information about electronics Difficulties • No difficulties as of yet Team Effort TEAM WEEKLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS TIME (Hrs) RUNNINGTOTAL (Hrs) Joe Ferris Class Time, Team Meeting, Individual Work 2.5 2.5 Kyle Herzog Class Time, Team Meeting, Individual Work 2.5 2.5 Ben Engel Class Time, Team Meeting, Individual Work 2.5 2.5 Eric Printz Class Time, Team Meeting, Individual Work 2.5 2.5Project Schedule TASK SEPT OCT NOV DEC DATES 8-15 22 29 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 1 8 15 PROJECT WORK Brainstorming Ideas Research Designing Prototypes Choosing a Prototype Obtaining Materials Building Prototype Testing Prototype Modifications COURSE DELIVERABLES PDS Mid-semester Report Mid-semester Presentation Final Report Final Presentation Weekly Reports Notebooks MEETINGS Team Meetings Client Meetings Advisor Meetings BSAC Meetings OTHER Web Page Special Lectures Expenses to Date:


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