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Brooklin Toombs

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Handwashing performs a vital role in reducing the spread of hazardous pathogens in domains such as food processing, hospital settings and public health. However, despite hand hygiene's importance, people often fail to wash their hands with proper technique. Automated handwash verifications systems have been developed, but little data has been gathered on their user-friendliness. This is an issue because hand hygiene monitoring devices will be difficult to successfully implement if users to not approve of them. Since there are many different types of monitoring devices, our research focuses on collecting user feedback for a camera-based system. A notable feature of the handwash system that we have opted to use is that its software can run using three different imaging models. So, feedback will be gathered via surveys that ask study participants about the following aspects of each model: speed, accuracy, reliability and user interface design. The survey data will then be analyzed to rank each model based on how well it performed in each attribute. Overall, our research will provide insight into how a particular type of handwash verification system can be improved. Such insight could then be extended to other similar systems and aid in the development of user-friendly, automated handwash verification technology.

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Purdue University / 2023

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Brooklin Toombs