Nekoze!-Monitoring and detecting head posture while working with laptop and mobile phone

Katsuma Tanaka, Shoya Ishimaru, Koichi Kise, Kai Kunze, Masahiko Inami

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Abstract

Neck pain and other spine related injuries are on the rise. One potential cause is bad head posture while using digital devices. We present two systems to monitor and improve head posture for two of the common problematic cases: laptop and mobile phone use. The laptop system uses the front-facing camera. The mobile system the sensor data of a smart glasses prototype. Both systems work reasonable in an initial user study with 10 and 8 participants (72 % detection on the laptop system, 100% for the mobile one). From the discussion, it seems users are especially interested in the smart glasses based monitoring implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2015 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages237-240
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781631900457
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015 Dec 8
Event9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2015 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 2015 May 202015 May 23

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2015 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2015

Other

Other9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2015
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period15/5/2015/5/23

Keywords

  • eye wear computing
  • head posture
  • smart glasses

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Health Informatics
  • Computer Science Applications

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