Tangible Studio Exhibition :: Tobias

For the tangible studio exhibition I expect to have the following
working:

Title: Helping people improve their ergonomics through active
feedback devices.

Many people work for long hours at a workstation. This leads to pain
and long-term injury due to poor posture and ergonomics.

The Active Health Series is a product line that helps people help
themselves by providing feedback to the users instead of just masking
the problem, as done by other solutions.

The product line consists of:

The Active Health Bracelet is for people working long hours at a
workstation who want to prevent or heal CTS. It provides light and
vibration feedback based on the position of the user's hands, unlike
other products on the market, which are passive. The bracelet helps
people learn when their hand position is not in a correct, healty
position and thereby avoids the pain which inevitably follows a
chronically bad hand position.

The Active Health Suspenders and Active Health Shirt are for people
who want to correct their bad posture. It provides active feedback
through vibration based on the users posture, unlike most other
products on the market.

The Active Health Break-O-Meter is for people working in front of
computers all day who want to improve their productivity and
health. The Active Health Break-O-Meter is a personal table device
that detects how long you have been sitting in the same position, and
notifies you when it is time to take a short break. While there are
software-based solutions, the break-o-meter is the only physical
device of this kind.

Milestones:

November 8 - 10 :: The Active Health Bracelet:
I will complete it in this week. This involves making better use of
the BlinkMs and optimizing the code. I do not plan to hide the
hardware unless you think that this is a good idea.

November 15 - 22 :: The Active Health Suspenders:
I will receive a pair of suspenders on Wednesday, and hopefully make a
quick prototype test before Friday Nov 11. If the test turns out well,
I will build the next version of the prototype from November 15th to
the 22nd.


Nov. 22 - Dec 1 :: The Active Health Shirt:
I bought a tight shirt, and I will try to attach my homemade flex
sensors to it. I hope to have this project finished November 30.

December 1 - 7 :: Poster, videos, unfinished stuff etc.