This document provides a midterm review of a project called Yogi's Smarter Choice, which aims to create a physical device that tracks yoga practices by focusing on the symmetric weight distributions of each posture without requiring any additional wearable equipment. The device would synchronize data like time, duration, and noticeable imbalances to web and mobile applications. If needed, the mobile app could provide voice feedback to improve the yoga experience. The creator wants to achieve making a non-distracting, practical, intuitive, and easy-to-use device that can engage users to improve their practice through feedback while preserving user experience, portability, data tracking and storage, and customization. Current technical challenges include validating whether the attained data will

1. MIDTERM REVIEW
YOGI’S SMARTER CHOICE
ONGOING PROCESS REPORT

2. Yogi’s Smarter Choice
A physical device that tracks yoga practices, especially focusing on
symmetric weight distributions of the each posture. Yogi can practice yoga
like usual without any additional wearable device and the data (time,
duration, noticable significant imbalance of the posture) is synchronized in
web and mobile applications. If needed, mobile app gives the voice feedback
to improve yoga experience.

3. Why am I creating this?
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4. Why am I creating this?
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Nobody corrects me while group practicing.
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5. Why am I creating this?
Nike +
RunKeeper
Adidas MiCoach
iFitness

6. Competitor Research

7. What I want to achieve
Make a device that do not distract the practice experience itself in
compensation of technology:
do not change the behavior. change the experience.
Make a device that is practical, intuitive, and easy–to–use:
easy to reach
Make a device that can engage people to use to improve their practice:
giving feedback

8. What I do not want to give up in personal
# user experience
# portable
# tracking history and storing data on the web
# Python practice
# customized

9. System Schematics

10. Current Status
Set up the proto-prototype with Raspberry Pi and FSR

11. Technical Challenges
Q. What if the data that I am attaining is useless for the purpose?
A. I don’t know. How can I know until I see the result?

12. For the rest of the semester...
Make working ecosystem.
Calibration.
Try several sensor.
Usability testing.
Documentation.
Thesis presentation.
Graduation.

13. THANKS!