Embedded Yoga Technology
Kshitij Shinghal*
Department of Electronics & Communication, MIT Moradabad, India
Submission: June 07, 2018;Published: June 19, 2018
*Corresponding author: Kshitij Shinghal, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication, MIT Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email: kshinghal@gmail.com
How to cite this article: Kshitij S. Embedded Yoga Technology. J Yoga & Physio. 2018; 5(2): 555660. DOI:10.19080/JYP.2018.05.555660
Editorial
It is my pleasure to write this editorial for Journal of yoga and Physiotherapy (JYP). The title of the article embedded yoga technology is a relatively new term, which means embedding yoga instructions ubiquitously in modern day technology equipment such as smart phones, laptops video games etc. There is a rapid and exponential increase in the number of physical disorders cases reported every year such as cervical spondylosis cases, degeneration of bones, back ache, neck ache, frozen shoulder. These problems which were earlier considered to be the problems associated with old age are now increasing among the youth specially among IT professionals, even children of small age group, due to the excessive use of smart phones, laptops, video games. The main cause for this is sitting for long durations in same posture, sitting in incorrect posture, working continuously on laptops computer without break etc. The “Embedded Yoga Technology” technique suggest that this is the high time to realize importance of yoga, meditation and physical exercise and include it in our daily life, making it part of our routine. In this technique the instructions of yoga will be embedded within the gadget such as smartphone, in its hardware or software. The gadget itself will give alerts/messages to change posture or to take walk or to move shoulders or take short breaks etc. The alerts/cues can be visual display on screen, audible messages or vibrations etc. The embedded yoga instructions will vary as per the gadget for example for smart phone the instruction may be to take power walk while talking, not to sit in chin lock position while using Whatsapp, change fingers/thumb while browsing similarly for desktop user it may be to fix monitor above the eye level, take break after few minutes. If these instructions are embedded in gadgets and are displayed and announced intermittently users may follow the instructions and get benefitted. Truly the coming era is of modern day equipment like Amazon Echo, Google assistant etc. but if we do not take sufficient care this will turn the modern-day generation in to more lethargic, suffering from various body ailments lack of enthusiasm and positive energy. Therefore, wise use of these equipment requires Embedded Yoga Technology.
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References and Acknowledgement
I have based this paper on the materials collected from several courses I’ve attended. Some of this information is also featured in various tutorials available online. In addition, I have also consulted several web pages while writing this article. I would also like to thank Mr. Amit Saxena and Ms. Deepti Shinghal for their valuable support, without their help this article would have been impossible to complete.
Author’s Biography
Kshitij Shinghal obtained his PhD in 2013 in the research field of VLSI Design and Wireless Sensor Network. He is now an Associate Professor with MIT Moradabad and is based in Moradabad, UP, India. His research areas of interest include Embedded Systems, VLSI Design, Biomedical Electronics, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networks. He has published more than 100 research articles in International Journals and Conference Proceedings.