抄録
The purpose of this study is to clarify the effectiveness of the new mitigation method for slouching posture of we suggest, aiming at the development of improvement training of the posture. We have used Kinect to measure the elderly’s slouching posture, and proposed a method to utilize it for maintaining their health. In this paper, we propose a new method to mitigate slouching posture during walking with the laser pointer by hand, keeping the laser light to the target in the front direction, called laser pointer task (LP task), and clarify the effectiveness of the method by the experimental analysis. As a result, posture distortion and body wobble of the elderly are reduced during the performance of LP task, and such effects are realized by feedback information indicated as the movement of the pointer on the target. This result suggest that the proposed LP task is effective as a safety mitigation method of slouching posture.
