Currently, I am working on a capstone project to develop an innovative chair to assist Dr. Tara Alvarez in her neuroscience research to treat patients with visual convergence issues. Last semester, when developing our design, we met with Dr. Alvarez to determine customer needs, work out our budget, and create a design plan. When speaking with her the first question we asked her was why this project was important; why she couldn’t use just a regular chair for her research. From this conversation we determined that she needed an innovative chair that was suitable for children as well as adults. The chair must restrict excessive movement but must also be as comfortable as possible in order to keep patients still for 30-60 minutes. We created our design plan by countless hours of research trying to find the most comfortable material and also found out that there are no chairs in the market that fit ever need of our customer.We came up with three potential designs for the chair and then researched the resources available to us to finalize which design we would pursue.