OCD Awareness Week: We Need New Solutions, More Conversations
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/PRNewswire/ -- During OCD Awareness Week, nView Health is calling for the use of new technologies and engaging in more conversations to better support...
A new glove device aims to help people with trichotillomania, or compulsive hair-pulling. Senior undergraduates are developing a glove-based sensor that tracks hand motion and flexing, combined with a smartphone app that tracks behavior over time. The glove incorporates flex and other sensors along with a gyroscope that sense when a hair-pull has happened. The glove sends data to the app, which keeps track of “no-pull” streaks. “The reward for every week you don’t pull your hair could be monetary or something as simple as a congratulations on the app,” says Linda Liu, a student in R...
People who compulsively pull their hair – suffering from an affliction known as trichotillomania – could find relief with a device created by Rice University students.Seniors at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering are developing a glove-based sensor t