Posture Buddy
Product Design, 2018
Overview
Posture Buddy protect your spine and neck health in your daily life. It makes you maintain good posture during the sitting on the chair.
Design process
I wanted to make an alarm that useful for daily life and the idea starts from what am I doing during the day. Most of the people spend their life on the chair(including me), and it's hard to maintain good posture during the whole day work. And this could cause serious neck and spine problem such as turtleneck syndrome.
So I use the ultrasonic range finder and speaker, designed this "Posture Buddy". Posture Buddy is easily combining with the chair, and it measures the distance from your head and sensor, and if your neck or spine become banding, then it noticing you by sound.
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Next Step
This is a rough sketch and mock-up from the physical computing class. I’m going to improve this project.
1. Desk research
2. Field research
3. User research
4. Make a prototype
5. User test
6. Repeat 4-5 based on feedback
I wanted to make an alarm that useful for daily life and the idea starts from what am I doing during the day. Most of the people spend their life on the chair(including me), and it's hard to maintain good posture during the whole day work. And this could cause serious neck and spine problem such as turtleneck syndrome.
So I use the ultrasonic range finder and speaker, designed this "Posture Buddy". Posture Buddy is easily combining with the chair, and it measures the distance from your head and sensor, and if your neck or spine become banding, then it noticing you by sound.
Next Step
This is a rough sketch and mock-up from the physical computing class. I’m going to improve this project.
1. Desk research
2. Field research
3. User research
4. Make a prototype
5. User test
6. Repeat 4-5 based on feedback
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