9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Nekoze! – Monitoring and Detecting Head Posture while Working with Laptop and Mobile Phone

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.260226,
        author={Kai Kunze and Katsuma Tanaka and Shoya Ishimaru and Koichi Kise and Masahiko Inami},
        title={Nekoze! -- Monitoring and Detecting Head Posture while Working with Laptop and Mobile Phone},
        proceedings={9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
        year={2015},
        month={8},
        keywords={eye wear computing head posture smart glasses},
        doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.260226}
    }
    
  • Kai Kunze
    Katsuma Tanaka
    Shoya Ishimaru
    Koichi Kise
    Masahiko Inami
    Year: 2015
    Nekoze! – Monitoring and Detecting Head Posture while Working with Laptop and Mobile Phone
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.260226
Kai Kunze1,*, Katsuma Tanaka2, Shoya Ishimaru2, Koichi Kise2, Masahiko Inami1
  • 1: Keio University
  • 2: Osaka Prefecture University
*Contact email: kai.kunze@gmail.com

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.