Alyssa Kane

HANDle - Hand Injury Assistive Device - Assistive handle designed to make daily tasks easier for people missing one to three fingers

Solidworks model - wrist support for leverage - thumb groove - support against palm - permanently attach to any household tool

There are 10,000 job-related amputations that occur each year in the US. - 94% involve fingers. - 90% of those people missing fingers lost them in an accident and had to become accustomed to the change

Attaches to a variety of tools. Foam inner layer with adhesive surface. Designed to permanently attach to each of the user's tools

Mock up, made of clay and formed from user testing around a utility knife.

Before designing the HANDle, I visited seven different rehab centers to understand the occupational therapy and hand therapy that occurs when a person has been involved in a physically life-changing event.

Most patients in the rehab centers had been injured on the job and were able to participate in the therapy under worker's compensation.

Many of the rehab centers had handmade tools to assist patients in re-learning daily motor skills.