INTELLIGENT SITTING POSTURE CLASSIFIER SMART CHAIR

Abstract: In recent years, there has been growing interest in postural monitoring while seated. Nowadays in modern societies, a sedentary lifestyle is almost inevitable for a majority of the population. Long hours of sitting especially in wrong postures, may result in health complications. Our aim is to provide rapid entire body assessment for computer operators, this review is convenience for assessment of jobs in various professions like construction health care jobs, workshop etc. Negative effects of bad posture on the body are depression, stress poor breathing, nerve damages etc. Experts estimates that up to 80% of the population will experience back pain at some time in their lives. Computer is operated by user for a longer time so sitting posture should be taken care by the operator if not it may lead to harmful effect for the body such as neck pain, pain in the spinal cord, various disorders relating to change in eye pressure and also may occur vision related problem caused by continuous use of computer for longer duration and also work stress will cause incardiovascular diseases. The computer operator can protect themselves from the health issues by implementing good body posture by the use of sensors and communication devices we can continuously monitor the computer operator for the betterment of sitting posture of human body.

Keywords: Posture, Smart Chair, Health monitoring.