How is the invention and progress of posture monitoring devices best understood given the numerous contributions across several decades?
As a continuous, distributed effort resulting from convergent technological readiness and persistent ergonomic inquiry.
The historical trajectory clearly indicates that posture monitoring is not attributable to one singular moment or individual inventor. Instead, it represents an accumulation of incremental improvements contributed by a wide array of engineers, medical professionals, and academic teams globally. This evolution involves distinct stages—moving from the conceptualization of sensing position (the patent stage) to applying advanced MEMS sensors and developing complex algorithms (the research stage). This distributed, continuous effort, driven by the simultaneous advancement of sensor technology and ongoing ergonomic investigation, defines the field's history.
