Project Description:

Understanding the sensation and perception of consumers is critical for a successfully delivered user experience (UX) of mechanical oral healthcare devices. For our purposes, sensation is the interaction between user and product, while perception is the impression gained from this interaction. Our industry partner, Philips Oral Healthcare (OHC) LLC, is expanding understanding of their devices’s UX to create better prototypes faster and earlier in the product development process. Currently, the R&D Team collects observational and reported use of prototypes where perception feedback is limited. The R&D Team needs to test early prototypes for sensations and experiences prior to human testing to enable productive iterations and more confident user testing results. We receive mentorship from our direct users in R&D, allowing us to align our design with OHC’s needs. Specifically, this solution maps mechanical experience to sensation and perception by modeling user sensitivity and discomfort to comfortable points.

Project Photo:

Sensovate logo. Sensovate is redefining sensation and perception with innovation

Student Team Members

• Amy Zhang
• Mili Ramani
• Neeti Prasad
• Eileen Stiles
• Alan Mao
• Justin Rosman
• Megh Tank
• Avery Ye

Course Faculty

• Constanza Miranda, PhD

Project Mentors, Sponsors, and Partners

• Philips Oral Healthcare Research and Development Team
• Irish Malig
• Liana Signoretty
• Michelle Starke, PhD
• Kurt Sjoberg
• Brian Tidball, PhD
• Vicki Wan
• Amina Ishrat