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A System for Real Time Monitoring of Users’ Postural Attitudes

Authors:
Alessandro De Gloria
Alberto Cavallo
Alessio Robaldo
Flavio Ansovini

Keywords: Biometric, posture, health sensor

Abstract:
This paper presents a system for real time monitoring of users’ postural attitudes with particular focus on children. Maintaining for too long a wrong posture could cause serious problems to children and, in worst cases, they could receive permanent spinal deviations. The system is composed of two different elements: 1) a device equipped with inertial sensors (accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope), which are applied to the patient’s spine and are able to measure his spinal curvature; 2) a mobile application for smartphone that provides a graphical user interface. Considering the age of the target of this project, we have decided to make use of the system similar to a game, giving the user a score based on his posture and creating a ranking. Our system can also give an alarm when the patient is maintaining a bad posture in order to educate him.

Pages: 269 to 271

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-470-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016