Health monitoring of IT industry people
G. Maria Justin Mary, P. Munipriya · 2011
In IT industry, almost all employees use desktop/Laptop at their workplace. The average working hours per day on computer in call center and software development were more than 9 hrs and 8.3 hrs respectively. Some of the present study [1] shows that the magnitude of computer related problems were around 93 percentage. It can be concluded seeing the responses that there is a need for constant monitoring and sporadic appraisal of health problems in IT professional to acquire appropriate remedial measures at the primal stage. This paper deals with the proposed solution for continuously monitoring, the gestures of IT people at their workstation by capturing it through web camera. The captured gestures are processed by flowing through a series of techniques such as Frame analysis, Foreground Segmentation and Feature Extraction. The processed gestures are compared with ideal gesture and alerts will be notified immediately to the users in case of any discrepancies. These alerts consequences the gesture change of the user to the classic position and paves way in preventing and reducing health hazards.