Overview

Pro Physio is a healthcare is a company that focusses on end to end physiotherapy related products and services.

Envision a design solution that will create increased engagement and commitment towards the treatment of patients and simplifies managing, providing care and monitoring rehabilitation for care givers.

For the next four months, I aimed to explore how technology could be integrated with physiotherapy to aid user needs. 

Context

What if there was a way to maintain a good posture without being paranoid?

Chivvy is a software solution that uses the webcam in your laptops to track and correct your posture while you focus on your work.

With the rise of economic growth, more and more are being employed to remain glued to their desks. As a result, our body posture has deteriorated and work - related musculoskeletal disorder have become an epidemic amongst professionals.

What Chivvy does for you?

Goals

• Uplift the practice of physiotherapy with realtime data sharing of patient's progress

• Prevent the negative impacts of working long hours in the office environment.

• Motivate users to utilize the software regularly and adhere to it's instructions.

My research showed multiple probable areas of interventions with people of varied age groups. Based on years of personal observation, my interest was more inclined towards exploring the negative impacts of overusing technology. This led to analysing the postural problems caused by interacting with laptops & phones.

Insights

• Young adults such as college students, interns and more, have a consistent habit of maintaining a bad posture. At this age, people have adapted their bodies to the tech around them which facilitate bending necks and slouching backs.

• The habit strengthens when the individual enters the working life of a 9 to 5 job due to prolonged sitting hours. The body takes advantage of our preoccupied mind while at work and ruins the posture.

• Correcting the posture requires the mind to realize what is happening. It requires cognitive intervention which can cost focus on work. 

• At a working environment, the solution had to be just enough disruptive to allow a consistent efficiency while working.

Service Mapping

This process gave definition to the product in terms of meeting user needs, structured core values, and necessary features. 

Software Prototyping

The software solution I was proposing entailed a silent tracking mechanism (webcam) that would send the user a notification to correct his/her bad posture while working in-front of a laptop. Additionally, there would be a UI platform which would allow the user to visually see their monitored results and more.

FEATURES -

Since this was a prototype, I had to showcase the silent tracking upfront in order to explain how the mechanism works. Therefore the analysing process was made visible and interactive. 

The simulation had to cover the following alerts:

• Slouching

• Proximity to the screen

• Duration of being seated

• Meetings / Short Exercises

The application works by capturing a user's X height and distance from the screen (face dimensions) via facial recognition. Once the ideal posture is set, it’s used as benchmark for all future monitoring.