The Virtual-Spine Platform-Acquiring, visualizing, and analyzing individual sitting behavior.

ABSTRACT: Back pain is a serious medical problem especially for those people sitting over long periods during their daily work. Here we present a system to help users monitoring and examining their sitting behavior. The Virtual-Spine Platform (VSP) is an integrated system consisting of a real-time body position monitoring module and a data visualization module to provide individualized, immediate, and accurate sitting behavior support. It provides a comprehensive spine movement analysis as well as accumulated data visualization to demonstrate behavior patterns within a certain period. The two modules are discussed in detail focusing on the design of the VSP system with adequate capacity for continuous monitoring and a web-based interactive data analysis method to visualize and compare the sitting be

SUBMITTER: Wang SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5999082 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature