The Comfy Chair

This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. It does not describe an actual complete program. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project any way you please.

This is mostly a hardware project with some software. The idea is to create a very comfortable, ergonomic office chair that with computer controlled adjustments, something like a glorified car seat in a 1957 Cadillac, only that gives you much finer control.

Not only does the computer program help you home in on the most comfortable and ergonomic settings, it continuously and imperceptibly adjusts the settings over a small range as you work. This puts the strain on slightly different muscles and joint spots over time.

Things that adjust include:

seat height
seat forward back tilt
depth of seat pan, by back pushing forward or back
angle of the the seat pan front to back
angle of the seat back
spread of the elbow rests
height of the elbow rests

The project name comfy chair is a Monty Python reference to a preposterous torture device called the “comfy chair”.

Your market is overpaid executives, so it does not have to be reasonably priced.

chair
Comfy Chair Student Project
desk
Dvorak keyboards
ergonomics
Kinesis keyboard
posture

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