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03 — REFLY

Rehab you can finally see.

A wearable e-textile system and companion app that turns at-home rehabilitation for burn survivors into real-time visual feedback — and connects patients, families and clinics into one care loop.

E-TextileService DesignDigital HealthUI/UX
My role
UX research, interaction design & app UI
Team
2 members
Type
Undergraduate graduation project
Stage
Concept validation
REFLY wearable rehabilitation system
Clinical interviews and user research
Portfolio slide · interviews with patients, therapists & caregivers
Discovery

A dual-sided bottleneck.

For burn survivors, post-discharge rehabilitation is the longest, most demanding phase — and the critical window for reclaiming daily life. Interviews surfaced a problem on both sides:

  • At home — “I never know if my posture is actually correct.” No objective guidance, fading motivation.
  • At the clinic — “One therapist for six patients.” Compressed sessions and invisible progress.
Service design ecosystem map
From fragmented care, where the patient carries every connection, to one shared data hub across patients, families and clinics.
Service design

From fragmented care to one ecosystem.

Today the patient bears the sole burden of stitching together isolated stakeholders. REFLY proposes a centralized hub where rehab data flows between home, hospital and rehabilitation institutions — so feedback arrives in time instead of months later.

Product ecosystem

Garment, core & app — one loop.

Three pieces close a sense-feedback-correct loop:

  • E-textile garment — passive posture tracking woven along anatomical lines.
  • Bluetooth core — a magnetic, detachable module with LED status, easy for limited dexterity.
  • REFLY app — progress visualization, social rehab and action history.

When the textile detects a posture deviation, the controller vibrates and the app reflects the correction instantly.

Product ecosystem and interactions
Garment, detachable core & app — one real-time correction loop.
Smart textile architecture
A three-layer smart-textile architecture, designed around real wearability for sensitive skin.
Smart textile

Engineered to actually be worn.

The garment layers therapy, sensing and alignment into one fabric:

  • Printed e-textiles mapping anatomy for passive sensing and a proposed micro-current layer.
  • Detachable magnetic module with omnidirectional attachment for limited manual dexterity.
  • Moisture-responsive fabric to reduce irritation on sensitive burn skin.
App UX

Reduce friction, drive motivation, connect care.

Six screens organized around three jobs:

  • Reduce cognitive load — completion ratios instead of stressful countdowns; real-time 3D mirroring as “the therapist's eyes.”
  • Build motivation — remote co-practice and positive reinforcement turn lonely tasks into accompanied routines.
  • Proactive safety — breathing guides trigger on abnormal heart rate; progress data connects patients, families and clinics.
REFLY app UI screens
Six app screens — from task progress and 3D posture to social co-practice and transparent data sync.
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