Team members: 4
Personal Role: UX Design Lead
Personal Skills Used: Conceptualizing, Task Analysis, Storyboarding, Wireframing, Mobile Prototyping, Usability testing
Awards & Publication: ACM CHI Student Design Competition Finalists, Toronto 2014
Design a postural reminder system to provide real-time notifications and feedback about a user’s unhealthy posture, and encourage user to establish and maintain healthy posture.
Every inch of forward head posture can increase the weight of the head on the spine by 10 pounds. Habitually unhealthy posture can be very difficult to monitor and correct on one’s own.
1. Neck pain is correlated with prolonged Forward Head Posture. 2. Real-time personalized interventions about postural awareness are correlated with sustained postural gains and reported reduced pain.
- Suffer from frequent neck pain. - Often sit in a sedentary position (6+ hours/day). - Generally have an unhealthy posture. - Want to maintain a healthy posture.
- Prolonged mobile phone or laptop use - Sitting in lectures, meetings - Driving a bus - Working on a desk
In our brainstorming sessions, our team came up with three main design alternatives to tackle the problem space.
A Google Glass application that gives posture feedback to the user on the Glass interface.
Body sensor that gathers posture information and sends it to a paired mobile phone application
A static chair brace sensor that collects posture information and sends it to a paired mobile phone or web application.
We used storyboards to depict our users using our three design alternatives .1. User using the google Glass Interface
2. User using the neck sensor with the mobile application 
Based on the review we got from our peers on presenting our three alternatives at a demo session, we were suggested a fourth design alternative. The idea was to incorporate the body device sensor onto normal earphones to callibrate posture information.
4. Earphone Posture Sensor 
After laying down all four design alternatives, we went back to our users and peers to rate the alternatives and give a reason for the same. Based on the user feedback and peer evaluation, the body sensor came out to be the most appreciated choice. We finalized our design to the body device and went ahead to make our application wireframes.
Wizard of Oz Technique Manual posture monitoring for 3 tasks: - Reading -Watching video -Writing
Affinity Diagram
Chunked Qualitative Data by Responses
