veyepar: Good, better, breast: Building a sensing mastectomy prosthetic with open hardware

Author(s):	Kathy Reid
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In Australia every year, around 18,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer [1]. Many will go on to have breast removal surgery, called a mastectomy. Only 12% of women who have a mastectomy will have reconstruction, and will instead opt to wear a silicon-based prosthetic.

These prosthetics are "dumb" - they're just silicone. They have 0 USB ports. What a great opportunity for open hardware!

As part of her term project in the Masters of Applied Cybernetics at the 3A Institute at The Australian National University, Kathy Reid, herself a breast cancer survivor, developed a prototype called "SenseBreast" - a sensing, smart, mastectomy prosthetic based on an RPi 3B+ and a Sense HAT. This was a "mucking around" project to learn Python, and she didn't expect it to work. 
Narrator: It worked.

In this poignant, funny, challenging, technical, entertaining and irreverent presentation, she explores;

- motivations for the project, including a desire to keep sensor data private and personal - after all, who's watching? 
- hardware design and sensor challenges in open hardware and Python
- prosthetic design and how to build a fake breast to contain hardware
- lived experience wearing a smart prosthetic
- implications for this technology, such as in post-mastectomy recovery 
- and reflections on the broader landscape of wearable technology

[1] https://www.bcna.org.au/media/6101/bcna-2018-current-breast-cancer-statistics-in-australia-31jan2018.pdf

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