Class 10 students group develops AI device to help fix posture
gurugram — A team of Class 10 students here has developed a portable, cost-effective and userfriendly device driven by artificial intelligence (AI) that may help correct the posture of those suffering from ‘text neck’.
Excessive watching or texting on hand-held devices over a sustained period of time can result in a repeated stress injury and pain in the neck called ‘text neck’.
The Posture Perfect Device developed by the students at Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram — Tanishka Sahay, Navya Sachdeva, Aryan Verma and Tejasv Rastogi — not only sends alerts for sitting in a wrong position but also notifies the number of times people sit in that posture.
After an interval of 30 minutes, the user is notified about their correct and incorrect posture ratio
through the push notification on their smartphones, Sahay said.
Unlike the other alternative methods available in health stores, this device is affordable and easy to use, Sahay noted. Studies have indicated that an incorrect posture can lead to a host of ailments, including exacerbating arthritis, breathing difficulty, headaches, among others.“The aim of our project was to create a portable, cost-effective and user-friendly
device to correct posture. There are, at present, two categories of posture correction devices available in the market: braces for the back and furniture, such as sit-stand desks,” said Sachdeva. “However, these devices are uncomfortable and have a high installation cost, which makes our device a much better alternative in the market,” Sachdeva said.
“Secondly, ours is a system that can be scaled to show organisational statistics and can help an organisation trace and improve its health footprints which we felt is a burning need at this stage since one of the major challenge is that people do not consider posture to be a matter of concern,” she said.
The device consists of a mountable camera which captures the live video stream of body posture in the form of image frames, which is then processed by an AI computer system. It identifies the essential body points like nose, neck, left and right shoulder and calculates the distance and angle between these points.
The device constantly captures, calculates and stores this data for each frame and averages these values every 30 minutes to determine the correct/incorrect posture ratios to predict postural improvement for end users. —