Saif Mustafa
ABSTRACT
School children frequently carry packs that don’t fit properly and are overweight which causes them to use poor posture as a form of compensation, leading to significant muscle tension, pain, and abnormal spine growth. An overweight backpack or improper weight distribution is detrimental for children’s health. This study focuses on combining force sensitive resistors, accelerometers, and load cells to detect when a child’s pack is over the recommended weight and give users feedback on the proper fitment to correct the use of their backpack and avoid musculoskeletal injuries. Also, using supervised machine learning, our model showed high accuracy of 90.71% in posture classification and has the ability to advise users on how to achieve better posture.
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