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FITASSIST: Stress Avoidance Through Posture Observation and Exercise Recommender |
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Ume-Kalsoom Waheed, Muhmmad Shahid, Atif Saeed, Riaz Ul Amin |
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Vol. 25 No. 5 pp. 143-151 |
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Digital gadgets like desktop computers, laptops, and mobile phones have become an essential part of the modern life. Due to availability and ease of use of the high tech digital gadgets, everybody spends a lot of time on computers that can cause serious stress on a human body. Today most of the jobs involve staring at computer screens for hours. The computer specific jobs require people to continuously interact with the computer screen for at least 5 hours a day on average. Some offices take care of the computer ergonomics (science of designing a job, work space or equipment to fit the worker) but most of the employers and employees are unaware of this. The usage of these gadgets without proper body orientation can lead to eye, backbone, neck, and head stress. Long term use of these gadgets can cause side effects such as musculoskeletal problems, obesity, vision problems and stress disorders as well. This can be avoided by sitting in a correct posture and taking exercises of eyes and back at regular intervals. The objective of this study is to monitor the users posture, eye, and neck stress. The user will be suggested exercises and tips to practice at regular intervals. The proposed software will maintain a record of the users posture statistics that will be shown in the form of graphs. The results of application monitoring, blink rate, and posture statistics indicate that there is a considerable improvement and accuracy in the proposed model which also helps in improving users physical health and reducing mental stress. |
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Ergonomics, computer vision, stress, posture |
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