Smart Chair' to Improve Health of Workers
From: Medical Design Technology - 06/19/2015

Researchers have designed a smart chair that will make the office and workers
safer and healthier.

Dr. Stephen Jia Wang at Monash (Australia), has developed office furniture
that will be able to tell the worker whether they are sitting correctly, when
it’s time to get up and move around and, even, "inform" your home furniture
of how your spine has been coping during the day and to alter your sofa’s
comfort settings before your sit down in front of the TV.

The sensors in this unique chair detect the varying loads exerted by a
person’s back and legs as they sit. This information is logged, analyzed, and
compared with "ideal" spinal positions. Then, after the individual user's
anatomy, usual posture and current problems have been factored in, the
central system sends out advisory texts or emails to correct bad posture –
not only in the office but also in the home.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/06/smart-chair-improve-health-workers

Links:
International Tangible Interaction Design Lab
http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/itidlab

Stephen Jia Wang
http://monash.edu/research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=44824&pid=6750