Initial Research Pathway




1. For our research, we chose AlterG treadmill as our topic. 

2. I looked up AlterG's website, https://alterg.com/ , which provided statistics information about the treadmill.

3. Through gAI(ChatGPT), we prompted "does AlterG treadmill have any competitor in this market that also uses DAP technology?" to find out more about the competitors and we found out that AlterG treadmill is the only one in the market that uses NASA's Differential Air Pressure (DAP) technology.


4. After that we also prompted "tell me about NASA Differential Air Pressure (DAP) technology features and functions in AlterG Treadmill", to find out more about the features and functions.


5. Through the results from point 3, we also prompted ChatGPT to "cite the sources".



Updated on October 3:

6. I looked through the websites; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7007317/ , and https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2009/hm_5.html. These websites allowed me to have an overall deeper understanding about the treadmill and its purposes.


8. From the 2 NCBI link provided in point 7, I looked up on the cited sources. Although I did not reference it, it allowed me to understand more about the treadmill.

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