System for Posture Evaluation and Correction - Development of a Second Prototype for an Intelligent Chair

Hugo Pereira, Leonardo Martins, Rui Almeida, Bruno Ribeiro, Claudia Quaresma, Adelaide Ferreira, Pedro Vieira

2015

Abstract

The sitting position has become one of the most common postures in developed countries. However, assuming a poor sitting posture leads to several health problems, namely back, shoulder and neck pain. In a previous work, an intelligent chair was developed and was shown to classify and correct the seating position. This work describes improvements on this intelligent chair prototype culminating with the development of a new prototype. The improvements of this new prototype are presented, resulting in new studies for posture identification. Pressure maps for 12 sitting postures were gathered in order to automatically detect user’s posture through a neural network algorithm, obtaining an overall posture classification of around 81%.

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Pereira H., Martins L., Almeida R., Ribeiro B., Quaresma C., Ferreira A. and Vieira P. (2015). System for Posture Evaluation and Correction - Development of a Second Prototype for an Intelligent Chair . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-071-0, pages 204-209. DOI: 10.5220/0005286002040209


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices15,
author={Hugo Pereira and Leonardo Martins and Rui Almeida and Bruno Ribeiro and Claudia Quaresma and Adelaide Ferreira and Pedro Vieira},
title={System for Posture Evaluation and Correction - Development of a Second Prototype for an Intelligent Chair},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={204-209},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005286002040209},
isbn={978-989-758-071-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2015)
TI - System for Posture Evaluation and Correction - Development of a Second Prototype for an Intelligent Chair
SN - 978-989-758-071-0
AU - Pereira H.
AU - Martins L.
AU - Almeida R.
AU - Ribeiro B.
AU - Quaresma C.
AU - Ferreira A.
AU - Vieira P.
PY - 2015
SP - 204
EP - 209
DO - 10.5220/0005286002040209