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Work · September 10, 2019

Fix Posture

TensorFlow blurs your screen when your posture needs fixing.

Fix Posture launched on September 10, 2019 with 214 votes, #86 of 3,296 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

What it does

UX designer Olesya Chernyavskaya's (@monolesan) created a Glitch app to fix your posture by simply blurring your screen if you don’t maintain good form. It checks your position using your webcam, and uses TensorFlow to evaluate whether your posture is correct.

This experiment blurs your screen when you keep not correct posture. To try it, you need to allow camera access. START KEEPING GOOD POSTURE BEFORE START. Poor posture is cause back pain, harder breathe, wear away at spine and other diseases. Good posture is when all body keeps correct position. Camera tracks only top of body, it doesn’t track legs. But it’s still fine to remind about posture. The best solution is a cyber suit controls all body. At first, I want to repeat that I used TensorFlow.js PoseNet model that tracks body parts and gives an array of parts’ positions (x, y). I chose the second one, because it’s easier and faster to do. When a human keeps incorrect posture, positions of…from monolesan.com

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