sit-and-stand Desk Tracking Over the past centuries, our lives have become more and more dominated by sedentary behaviors such as prolonged sitting. Particularly in the work context (e.g., office jobs), the number of tasks focused around sitting at a computer has increased markedly in the recent years, although a growing body of research has connected…
a flexible Office chair as ubiquitous Input device Furniture elements can be found everywhere, pervasively embedded into our daily life, barely noticed as functional tools or design elements. Currently, we see more and more devices with embedded sensing and communication capabilities. We believe that furniture provides a particularly interesting design space for fitting interactive technologies…
Posture guidance for Improved Sitting Behavior A typical office workplace is a computer workstation where the average office worker spends about 50,000 hours seated in the course of his/her working life. As a consequence of this motion deficiency about 40% of all office workers are going to have back problems. The computer work typically results in…