UX and AI experiment detects your posture and blurs screen if it’s poor
UX and AI experiment detects your posture and blurs screen if it’s poor launched on September 9, 2019 with 11 votes, #895 of 3,296 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
In plain words
This AI tool monitors user posture through a device camera and automatically blurs the screen when it detects poor posture. Designed for people who spend extended time at computers, it serves as a real-time reminder to maintain better spinal alignment and ergonomic positioning. The system uses computer vision to analyze body position and provides immediate visual feedback by obscuring the display until posture improves.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
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 fix-posture.glitch.me
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