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I'm moving soon and will be setting up a new home office and one of the things I was thinking about is using Kinect as a sort of posture sensor at my desk, so if it detected me leaning forward, etc., it'd be able to throw a warning on the screen. Is there anything along these lines I should be looking at? I certainly don't mind writing it if I need to but I cannot be the first person with this idea.

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i've not heard of that solution being done yet but it's a good idea. LMK if you work on it as i could use it to stop leaning back so much in my chair. question is do you do carrot or stick model? carrot would be something like for 30 min in a row of good posture i get a reward. stick would be that super-annoying sounds are played (alarm, etc.) until i correct the posture.

I would probably do the stick approach via something like a translucent overlay. I'm not sure the carrot approach makes sense to me personally because the rewards (no neck pain, etc.) are pretty intrinsic already.

I will definitely throw it up on github if I don't end up finding something else that already does it.

On a similar note, I have also been looking for something I could use to move my cursor between my monitors. I have a sort of a half-hexagon arrangement using 3 displays and it would be nice to be able to center the cursor on whatever one I am looking at.

I think there are applications out there that sort of do this, though, so I am hoping I luck out.

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