Smart pose

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Full Title: • Smart pose: mobile posture-aware system for lowering physical health risk of smartphone users • Authors: • Hosub Lee, Young Sang Choi, Sunjae Lee, Eunsoo Shim • Abstract: • With the widespread use of smartphones, users tend to use their smartphones for a long period of time with unhealthy postures, bending forward their upper body including the neck. If users keep such an unhealthy posture for a long time, their neck and back muscles get chronically strained, which might cause diseases such as cervical myalgia. To prevent these diseases, we propose a new methodology to monitor the posture of smartphone users with built-in sensors. The proposed mechanism estimates a value representing user postures like head/neck tilt angle by analyzing sensor data from a front-faced camera, 3-axis accelerometer, and orientation sensor. It then informs the user if the estimated value is maintained within the abnormal range over a pre-defined time. • URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=246... • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2468356.246...

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