The project „FUTURE"
With the modern technology in our smart devices, we want to make the world of work a little healthier and offer employees tied to the screen a new perspective to make and survive their everyday lives more active and healthier.
These extend not only to the active posture control of the back, but also to head movements on the screen in the office triggered by visual impairment, but also to mobile phone use by our children and adolescents.
The start-up phase
Spine-Check Office
It all starts with going to the app stores in the world to reach the largest possible number of users.
Since November 2023 we are live in the stores.
As soon as a minimum of 1000 users is reached, a statistical evaluation becomes useful.
Project 2
Spine-Check Clinic
As soon as the cohort of 1000 users is reached, the information of the users who were anoymized during the setup of the app will be statistically analysed and evaluated:
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Age
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Professional activity
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Leisure activity
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Medical diagnoses
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Current symptoms
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Strength of symptom
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Frequency of symptoms
The app will ask the users participating in the study again about their current state of health at regular intervals in order to determine the changes caused by using the app.
Project 3
Spine-Check Research
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As soon as the statistical data from the first phase of use are available, a research project is started.
The users are divided into randomised groups blindly and without their knowledge.
Four (4) user groups are proposed various measures to interrupt the stereotypical sitting posture. After the end of the test phase of the various measures, they will be questioned again about their condition.
The results are then statistically evaluated and published.
Project 4
Spine-Check Eye optics
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In the near future, the back-check app will take care of eye optics during screen work,
Due to the ever-increasing use of digital devices, the study overview shows a clear trend towards increasing numbers of earlier and stronger stress disorders of the eyes.
In order to install a regulation here, users will use the back check app.
When the visual load caused by small fonts and images on the screen reaches or exceeds the accommodation performance of the eyes, man compensates for this by moving his head towards the screen, usually with an isolated translation of the chin forward.
As soon as a user takes this movement / posture on the screen, the back check app can determine his head-neck position. Here, the AI recognises the isolated advance movement and its repeat density.
As soon as a critical accumulation and duration of head posture is recognised, the app warns the user to correct his head position.
Subsequently, exercises are proposed to him to improve his accommodation performance (far looking, closing eyes, rubbing, turning, etc.)
If the app recognises after several weeks that his lack of compensation does not subside by repeatedly interviewing the user, it recommends that he be introduced to an ophthalmologist or optician to have his eyes checked.
As a result, the back check app can see to what extent the technical visual aids have improved the compensation behaviour of the user.
Project 5
Spine-Check Youth
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In the near future, the back check app will target another field of health care, the children and adolescents.
Their increasing media consumption on digital devices has been pointing upwards for years and the study overview shows a clear trend towards rising numbers of early and chronic neck, headache and back pain in the age group under the age of 16.
In order to integrate a regulation here, parents with password protection will use the back check app.
As soon as a young user uses a smart device, the back-check app can determine and assess his posture in the room and to the device with regard to possible physical overloads in the back and naked region.
If this posture is not improved after prompted by the app, the app turns the screen matte so that it is no longer useable.
As soon as the teenager has corrected his attitude, the app switches the screen back to clear.
Project 6
Spine-Check Psychosomatics
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Once the benefits of the back check app for measuring and improving physical sitting and working posture have been proven, we will turn to the psychological aspects of the working posture.
As the study overview clearly shows, there are close links between physical attitude and mental mood.
This connection exists not only in the psychosomatic direction, but also in somato-psychic.
The principle of "embodyment" is to be tested and applied to users here using the back check app.
The benefits for employees and employers are obvious if this can achieve a more positive attitude towards work.
