Posture Monitoring and Improvement for Laptop Use

Carrie Demmans; Sriram Subramanian; Jon Titus

Posture Monitoring and Improvement for Laptop Use

Carrie Demmans, Sriram Subramanian, Jon Titus

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Abstract

Both Repetitive Stress Injuries and laptop use have increased. The poor ergonomic design of laptops has the potential to create or exacerbate existing RSI. We propose a persuasive Attentive User Interface which provides feedback in order to improve user neck posture. This system measures the angle of the user.s neck and determines the quality of his/her neck posture. We then provide exercises to strengthen the neck and improve the user.s posture. We performed a study which showed an increase in neck comfort among our system.s users. The study demonstrated the potential of our system, which should be further tested.

Translated title of the contribution	Posture Monitoring and Improvement for Laptop Use
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2357-2362
Journal	CHI '07: CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems
Publication status	Published - 2007

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ISBN: 9781595936424
Publisher: ACM
Name and Venue of Conference: CHI '07: CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems
Other identifier: 2000787

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