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Show HN: I created a Chrome extension to help keep good posture while browsing
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[0] https://github.com/killa-kyle/posture-posture-posture-chrome...
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Show HN: I created a Chrome extension to help keep good posture while browsing
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Interesting idea. I wonder if it would be better if the camera was from the side instead of the front (I know this isn't really doable for most). The thought process here is, should there be a calibration routine to compensate not just for the height of the monitor but also the position of the webcam? As I write this, I am using very bad posture--slouching back, head craned forward, etc, but my eyes would be in the "…
(Plus I need one to tell me to stop standing too much, or standing but not moving maybe, after incurring some foot problems due to excessive standing desk use during covid lockdown)
However, my neighbour is a career academic with a PhD in human factors, and just last Friday was telling me he had been searching for statistical validation for twenty years that maintaining "good posture" while sitting was beneficial, and has yet to be able to come up with anything even vaguely statistically meaningful.
His take is, any sitting posture is bad for you, if maintained or preferred excessively.
Seems you are good however, as long as you change often enough to balance out or average out the various "curl up" and "stretch out/arching" positions.
This is unless you have a particular injury, or scoleosis etc and have certain positions you need to avoid.
Otherwise, just slouch around, but change semi regularly.
So it would be good if somehow it could tell you too much curl, too much arch/stretch, or too long in one position, instead of deviation from an absolute. But this starts getting complicated on first inspection.
The desire for "good" posture, along with many other things, falls into the category of "are you telling me something you know, or something that someone told you?".
Question everything.
I appreciate the tech and effort that went into this, but the assessment criteria could maybe be given a few options to suit individual desires/needs. (Plus I need one to tell me to stop standing too much, or standing but not moving maybe, after incurring some foot problems due to excessive standing desk use during covid lockdown) However, my neighbour is a career academic with a PhD in human factors, and just last F…
Heh, I like this. But I also keep reading that simply holding "good" posture is not helpful, and that changing position (including to slouch, recline, rest on a elbow etc) protects against muscle spasm from holding the same position. I suppose this implementation could help with that too though. Slouch a bit, get reminded to lean back, repeat etc.
Small idea can sometimes turn into something big. Keep it up.
I appreciate the tech and effort that went into this, but the assessment criteria could maybe be given a few options to suit individual desires/needs. (Plus I need one to tell me to stop standing too much, or standing but not moving maybe, after incurring some foot problems due to excessive standing desk use during covid lockdown) However, my neighbour is a career academic with a PhD in human factors, and just last F…
Thanks for taking a look. Currently the "posture detection" is only considering the Y-axis deviation of your right eye from a predetermined baseline value, but if there's enough interest it could be expanded to consider those specific positions. MoveNet, the pose detection model I'm using is capable of that.
I have trichotillomania. Something that could tell me off for doing that, would be HUGE. I genuinely tie my arms to my arm rests so I can't reach my hair.