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Shriram KV
Bengaluru, Karnataka
An Innovative Ergodesk - For Everyone who sits infront of a computer!
Ergonomics is nothing but the rules governing the workplace. ErgoDesk is the ultimate drug-free way to look after your spine and health. This research provides an interesting and realistic solution towards achieving the goal maintaining good health. Physical stress at the work environment can reduce efficiency of the individuals at work. Ergonomics is described as the rules to be adapted by one, at work environment. The main focus of ergonomics is to reduce the physical stress caused by factors like improper body mechanics, repetitive motor movements, static positions, vibrations, lighting and impact or contact with objects. Henceforth, through this paper, we present a distinct tool called the “ERGODESK”, which could be useful for monitoring a computer user’s posture and activities. In this study, we present a real time feedback system for detecting people and their postures and generating summaries of postures and activities over a specified period of time. The system runs reliably on different people and under any lighting. The fundamental challenge, to detect the change in user’s posture most accurately in the least time, has been analysed and a solution in form of new Quadratic Search Algorithm has been proposed. The system captures an image of the user at regular intervals of time, carries out certain pre-processing steps and then checks for a change in user’s posture by comparing it with a reference image acquired previously in series of steps as per the New Quadratic Search algorithm. Then the user is notified about the change of his ergonomic posture. ...learn more
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Overview / Usage
ErgoDesk is a real-time ergonomic help for those who use computers. ErgoDesk assesses the user’s correct posture, detects the change in the user’s posture and alerts the user to take breaks. It also guides the users on certain pain relieving exercises.
The problem at hand is to obtain an image of the user at regular intervals and compare it with the reference image in an effective way such that the movement, if any, could be detected accurately in optimized time.
The main objective of this paper is to bring ergonomics to your desktop.
Methodology / Approach
ErgoDesk is a tool that helps in assessing the posture of a user. ErgoDesk consists of three modules called Graphical User Interface (GUI), Information Capture and Posture Assessment. All these happen real-time with our intelligent algorithm running in the computing engine. Also, it is important to note that, the overall cost for building this system is very negligible.
Technologies Used
Intel AI Vision Kit, AI VISION camera, Python.
Repository
https://maxwellsci.com/msproof.php?doi=rjaset.8.1161
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