Due to Covid 19, most people are stuck inside, in front of their computer most of the day. We realized that this is pretty much the most inactive space right now, and we decided that we wanted to find a way that people might be able to exercise while in front of their desk. A problem that arise from sitting at a desk all day is bad posture and hunched shoulders. Another problem is hip flexor (front of hip) problems. Looking down while working also makes the neck loose it's natural curve.
- We took a survey and people spend on average 6-10 hours in front of a screen.
- We talked to 3 experts (Mr. Williams, Charlie, and Dr. Wang)
- Mr. Williams:
Exersise four sides of the body
Think push and pull, basically if you're doing one thing, do the opposite to exersise the other parts.
- Charlie:
Game/point system to motivate users
- Dr. Wang:
Lots of repittition for a long period of time'
Evenly distributing the exercise
- Google
- Amazon: Comparing our solution to existing exercise equipment
- S-shape plastic piece that hooks onto your table and has a loop band hooked onto the other end.
- Electronic board game that counts the pulls. DANDY LAND
- Board game for motivation and encouragement during your time excersising
- When pulling the band, go slow, so ur arms turn out dank fine like mine - (Unzila)
How our solution encourages people to exercise during work (and ideas)
- It uses DANDY LAND, which is an online board game that encourages people to use our product.
- It's small and can be carried around easily (portable)
- Cheaper solution vs large and probably expensive equipment
- Easily installed
- Not many hazards
- Add more interesting designs?
- Original colors = White, grey
- Plain colors = Normal plain colors from the rainbow
- Animal patterns
- Looks like it is an animal
- Snake
- Giraffe
- More ideas?
(Abby)
The first part includes our 3D printed prototype that hooks on to your table. It's an S-shape, so one side is hooked on to your table and the other side allows you to hook a loop-band on.
The second part is the sensor, the connection between the hook and the board game. We plan to have it count how many pulls the user gets and then that would be how many steps they take in the board game.
The third part is a board game that would be connected to the hook so that when you sync it, it will have the character move a certain amount of spaces. The game is called Dandy Land, and is right now programmed on Scratch. You enter your amount of pulls, and then the dog walks the amount of steps.
*Work In Progress*