Express estimation of the user’s working posture in learning process

Abstract

Despite active development of information technologies in higher education, university students, including the Physical Education students, do not think about eliminating negative effect of long-termed being in static user’s working posture. In order to estimate biogeometrical profile of the working posture while using Information Technologies of Education, the technique of express estimation of the user’s working posture in learning process was introduced. This technique includes selection of the most informative indices in sagittal and frontal planes, estimation of every single index on a scale from one to five by a group of experts, average evaluation of indices using the method of expert assessment, development of generalized scale of biogeometrical profile of the user’s working posture and correlation of the assessment of the student with this scale. As the result of the experiment, which involved 140 students – teachers of Physical Education-to-be, it was discovered that they have moderate level of the user’s working posture. It proves the necessity to provide the students with knowledge and skills of controlling the working posture “sitting at a computer”.