CleoCare SenseGlove textile glove worn on a hand

CleoCare SenseGlove

introduction

CleoCare, formerly Glooma, is developing SenseGlove, a smart glove and companion app that help women check their breasts at home, as a complement to breast self-examination. FullCycle has been its hardware development partner across successive engineering and design validation stages, taking the device from a proof of concept built on a surgical glove to a custom textile glove with integrated electronics and its own control module.
SenseGlove by CleoCare with its companion app

project context

CleoCare builds tools that help women be more aware of and involved in their breast health. Its device is a portable glove used at home for a few minutes, guided in real time by an app that also produces a summary the user can take to her doctor. When the collaboration started, the concept already worked in the lab: the client's sensing technology was mounted on a surgical glove and connected to its own software. What was missing was a product that a woman would trust, wear comfortably and use correctly on her own, and that suppliers could manufacture consistently.
SenseGlove by CleoCare in use at home

problem
statement

Moving from a proof of concept to a wearable health device raises requirements that a lab prototype never has to meet. The glove has to fit different hands and feel like a garment, not like equipment. The electronics have to survive repeated use and cleaning, and behave the same way from one unit to the next. The device has to be simple enough to use at home without training. And everything has to be documented so that textile and electronics suppliers can produce it, and so that the client can support its certification path in Europe. The sensing technology is CleoCare's own and is not described here.
The original proof of concept built on a glove

project scope

  • Requirements definition and management at every stage
  • User research and UX requirements
  • Concept generation and product design
  • Custom textile glove development
  • Custom control module design
  • Electronics integration
  • Prototyping and verification
  • Usability test protocols for the client's user studies
  • Manufacturing documentation and supplier definition

requirements

  • Intuitive to use at home, without training
  • Comfortable fit across different hand sizes
  • Easy to clean
  • Simple, clear interface on the device
  • Consistent performance from unit to unit
  • Design for disassembly
  • Components compliant with RoHS, REACH and WEEE
  • Developed for European market requirements
  • Manufacturable by textile and electronics partners

highlights

  • 15 awards won by the product
  • From a surgical glove proof of concept to a custom product
  • Successive EVT and DVT stages completed successfully
  • Hundreds of prototype iterations
  • Acceptance criteria met at every stage
  • Clinical studies and user testing run by the client in parallel

Sketches

SenseGlove sketch, perspective view
SenseGlove sketch, top view
SenseGlove sketch, side view
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Photos

FullCycle and CleoCare teams reviewing glove prototypes
Prototype review session at the FullCycle studio
Project workshop with the CleoCare team
SenseGlove control module prototypes
SenseGlove textile glove prototype worn on a hand
SenseGlove control module
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description
and
functioning

  • A custom textile glove, designed for comfort, fit and repeated use
  • Electronics integrated into the textile, so the device is worn like a garment
  • A custom control module with a simple interface, developed for the glove
  • Designed to be cleaned between uses
  • Designed for disassembly at end of life
  • Documentation prepared so that textile and electronics suppliers can manufacture it
CleoCare SenseGlove textile glove worn on a hand

addressing requirements

The work was organised in stages. Each stage started with a requirements document covering usability, function, sustainability and manufacturing, agreed and signed with CleoCare before any design work began. That gave both teams a fixed reference to verify against at the end of the stage.

Within each stage, FullCycle generated concepts, built and compared prototypes in parallel, and verified the results against the acceptance criteria and reference data supplied by the client. Only the options that met the criteria moved forward.

Responsibilities were split clearly. FullCycle handled the hardware: the textile glove, the control module, the integration of the electronics and the manufacturing documentation. CleoCare kept ownership of its sensing technology, its software, and the clinical studies and user testing, using the protocols and prototypes delivered at each stage.

Sustainability was treated as a requirement from the start: components compliant with RoHS, REACH and WEEE, suppliers selected with attention to labour and environmental standards, and a design that can be disassembled at end of life.

SenseGlove demonstrated on a training model with its companion app

renders

SenseGlove design illustration, top view
SenseGlove design illustration, side view
SenseGlove design illustration, coral colourway
SenseGlove design illustration, coral colourway side view
SenseGlove design illustration, yellow colourway
SenseGlove design illustration, yellow colourway side view
SenseGlove layout illustration
SenseGlove layout illustrations
CleoCare SenseGlove textile glove worn on a hand
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Photos

SenseGlove sketch, perspective view
SenseGlove sketch, top view
SenseGlove sketch, side view
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results and
benefits

  • A custom textile glove and control module in place of the original proof of concept
  • Requirements met at every development stage
  • A device the client uses in its own clinical studies and user pilots
  • 15 awards won by the product

impact of
the project

CleoCare moved from a laboratory proof of concept to a device it can put in the hands of users, present to investors and partners, and take through clinical evaluation. The product has since been recognised with 15 awards and is in pre-launch.

conclusion

This project shows how a hardware partner can carry a health technology from the lab to a product without taking over the parts that belong to the client. CleoCare kept its technology, its clinical work and its relationship with users. FullCycle supplied the product development process, the prototyping capacity and the manufacturing knowledge to turn that technology into something people can wear.

Details of the sensing technology and of the solutions evaluated during development are confidential.

FullCycle and CleoCare teams reviewing glove prototypes
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