Software system for facilitating incidental exercise on the job (17-Nov-2009)

Software system for facilitating incidental exercise on the job

Some people exercise while performing their jobs; this is called incidental or unintentional exercise. People with physical occupations get enough incidental exercise to stay in shape. However people with sedentary occupations, mainly people sitting behind a desk utilizing a computer for most of their work, do not have the benefit of incidental exercise because their job does not require a significant amount of motion to perform.

The proposed solution resolves this problem by enabling the mapping of exercise motions or sequences to repetitive tasks that the computer operators perform, and thus the benefit of incidental exercise is gained without affecting the productivity. The core idea of the invention is the mapping of exercise routines to computer control signals, macros, and common user actions. Control signals such as, hitting the return key or scrolling up and down or hitting enter, can be mapped to exercise routines. In addition macros of frequent tasks can also be mapped to exercise gestures or sequences.

Thus with exercise peripherals that can detect exercise motions the computer user is able to exercise without interrupting the normal flow of his work and still maintain the ability to do his work the same way he is used to through the use of standard computer peripherals, mouse & keyboard.

The Exercise Management software system works as follows:
· The signal from t...