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Implementation of Sitting Posture Monitoring System with Kinect

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 448))

Abstract

Most modern office workers are seated on the chair for working with the computer during most working time. Generally, the correct sitting posture is critical for human life because wrong sitting posture can lead the back or neck disorder related sickness. The majority of previous researches have been utilized various sensors with special chairs to measure the sitting posture. However, these special chairs can be uncomfortable for users due to unfamiliar sitting environment. Therefore, we proposed the sitting posture monitoring system using Kinect which provides IR depth camera to record user’s sitting posture data and alert wrong posture to user. The proposed system provided 62% increased correct sitting posture during 35 min for 5 participants. We believe that the proposed system can help to improve the behavior of sitting posture of user without any uncomfortable adhesive sensors.

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Acknowledgment

This research was supported by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2016-H8601-16-1009) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion). This research was supported by the Soonchunhyang University Research Fund.

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  1. Department of Computer Software Engineering, Soonchunhyang Univeristy, Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

    Dong-Jun Shin, Min-Sang Kim, Wook Song & Min Hong

  2. Department of Medical IT Engineering, Soonchunhyang Univeristy, Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

    Se Dong Min

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

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  3. Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Adelaide, Australia

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Shin, DJ., Kim, MS., Song, W., Min, S.D., Hong, M. (2017). Implementation of Sitting Posture Monitoring System with Kinect. In: Park, J., Chen, SC., Raymond Choo, KK. (eds) Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. FutureTech MUE 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 448. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5041-1_26

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