Are Deep Brain Simulators Usable? A Pilot Observational Study With Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor Patients

This observational study explores whether people with Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor face additional barriers when interacting with medical devices, specifically deep brain simulators. Informal observations were conducted with six deep brain simulator patients. During the study, it was found that every participant thought at least one aspect of the deep brain simulator was scary, frustrating, or confusing.