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Enhancing the Wellbeing at the Workplace

Authors:
Rainer Planinc
Michael Hödlmoser
Martin Kampel

Keywords: workplace; ergonomics; AAL; elderly; physical activity; stress management; nutritional balance;

Abstract:
Physical and psychological issues are a common problem for elderly employees. Working in an sitting position with not ergonomically designed working places, too little exercises in combination with unhealthy nutrition and stress are the main causes of the problems. In order to prevent such problems, we propose to monitor the workplace in an holistic way, thus detecting unergonomically workplaces, too little exercises, stress and an unbalanced diet automatically. The proposed system is able to detect unhealthy behavior by using a 3D sensor in combination with a camera and speech recognition. The proposed approach will be evaluated at least at 50 work places in order to prove its feasibility.

Pages: 213 to 216

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-384-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015