How can your webcam improve your health?

Information System Dept.:Dr. Meirav Taieb-MaimonProf. Bracha ShapiraMr. Ido OrensteinMr. Dudi Ben ShimonMr. Denis Klimov

Dept. of Social Work:Prof. Julie Cwikel

Do you recognize yourself?

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Work station characteristics:

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Lighting

FatigueFatigue

Long work hours

Visual overload

Un-natural sitting position

Arm position

Eating at the computer

Goals of the research:

To test the effectiveness over time of an innovative self-modeling photo-training method for reducing musculoskeletal risk among workers at computers.

This was compared to traditional one-time ergonomic training (pamphlets, personal advice and workstation adjustments).

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Method for Ergonomic Estimate of Posture RAPID UPPER LIMB ASSESSMENT (RULA)

Scale from 1-7 (1 good posture – 7 poor posture) RULA takes into account a series of angles and deviations

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Additional

aspects

Description of the Experiment

60 workers (51 from BGU and 9 from Soroka Hospital) working in different jobs (e.g. administration, research, programmers)

Age range 26-66

38 Women and 22 Men

At each participant’s work station a webcam was installed that photographed at random intervals approximately each 20 mins.

10-15 photos were analyzed each day

Three study groups: Photo-training with personalized pop-up photos (intervention) Traditional office training Control

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Pop-up personalized photo-training photos

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Stages of the experiment

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Training

One week break

Overall Results

קבוצת

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Control

Traditional office

training

Photo-training

Comparison between men and women

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Control

Traditional office

training

Photo-training

Conclusions

Personal pop-ups are an effective of reminding computer users to pay attention to their work posture and may over time, improve worker health.

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