BME100 f2014:Group8 L3

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OUR TEAM Isabella Germinario Daniel Hersey Ethan Lloyd Bakir Mousa Bailey Myers Robert Shultz LAB 3A WRITE-UP Descriptive Statistics The data shows that the mean values for Gold Standard (91.82981 degrees) and Spree (93.19359 degrees) in temperature and gold standard (91.27416 bpm) and Spree (92.82278bpm) in heart rate are very similar. This should indicate that the devices are all accurate to a relatively similar degree. However, upon further analysis, the accuracy of the devices is found to be quite different. When it comes to temperature, this fairly drastic difference in standard deviation (14.75397 degrees for gold standard and 2.99257 degrees for Spree) can be attributed to the fact that the Spree device does not measure exact temperature. Rather, it measures approximate ranges. This provides significantly less accurate data than the Gold Standard thermometer which provides an exact temperature for each reading. The temperature data used for the Spree band was approximated to certain given degree values, and substituted in for the ranges (1,2,4, and 4). This allowed for the analysis of actual temperatures rather than ranges, but also provided false data, in a way. The ranges obtained from the Spree device were mostly the same value, so the same temperature value was averaged in multiple times. This would explain why the spree seemed to be much more consistent in measuring temperature than the Gold Standard thermometer. For heart rate, the standard deviation of the gold standard (20.50269 bpm) and Spree band (21.46775 bpm) were actually quite similar. This would indicate that the Spree was relatively accurate in measuring heart rate. Results Analysis Summary/Discussion While using the Spree headband, there were a few flaws we noticed with the design of this object. One of the most apparent flaw contained in this headband is the fact that it doesn't measure the exact temperature, but instead gives a range of what the temperature is closest to. This does not create accurate results as it only picks a certain range the temperature is around. The second design flaw noticed in this product is that it measures off temperature based off the user's skin, and not directly. This is not accurate because the skin does not depict the actual temperature of the user, since it can easily be affected by the environmental temperature. Another design flaw noticed while conducting this experiment is that is very uncomfortable and does not stay in place. For this product to be effective, it needs to be comfortable for the user so they wouldn't mind wearing it. To make this product better, there are many steps that can be taken. One measure that can be taken is to make the headband more appealing to the eye so more people would wear it and not mind it looking bad in public. LAB 3B WRITE-UP Target Population and Need Device Design Inferential Statistics Graph