Schedule Management System for Exercise-Aware Workplace Assignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing schedule management systems fail to provide a work plan that allows workers to simultaneously perform assigned tasks and achieve an appropriate amount of exercise for maintaining their health, as they only issue warnings for excessive work without suggesting suitable work places for exercise.
Innovation Solution
A schedule management system that acquires user-specific target exercise amounts, extracts and assigns suitable working places from a database based on registered exercise amounts, and outputs the assigned working places, allowing users to achieve both task performance and health-maintaining exercise.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a system only issues warnings for excessive work, then it can detect worker overload, but it cannot propose work plans that achieve both task performance and health-maintaining exercise
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an exercise amount calculation unit as an intermediary component that bridges the gap between work schedule management and health monitoring. This unit calculates exercise amounts based on movement information from wearable devices, transforming raw movement data into actionable health metrics that can be integrated with work task management, thereby enabling the system to propose work plans that balance both productivity and worker health
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enhances the schedule management system with multi-functionality by integrating not only work task management but also exercise amount calculation, health status monitoring, and automated work plan proposal capabilities. This universal system can simultaneously handle multiple functions including detecting worker overload, calculating exercise amounts from movement data, and generating optimized work plans that achieve both task completion and health maintenance goals
2Productivity
If a system integrates exercise amount calculation and working place assignment, then it can propose work plans achieving both task performance and exercise goals, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the exercise amount calculation unit with the schedule management system into a single integrated platform. By combining work task management, exercise calculation, and health monitoring functions into one unified system, the patent reduces the need for multiple separate systems while achieving the dual goals of task performance and health maintenance, thereby managing complexity through consolidation rather than proliferation of components
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements automated algorithms that self-service the complex tasks of calculating exercise amounts from movement data, determining appropriate working places, and generating optimized work plans. The system automatically processes movement information from wearable devices, calculates exercise metrics, and proposes work schedules without requiring manual intervention, thereby managing system complexity through automation rather than manual processes
Data Source
AI summary
A schedule management system includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a target exercise amount of a first user for each predetermined period; a place assignment unit configured to extract at least one working place from a database and assign the extracted at least one working place to the first user as a working place for the predetermined period, the working place being a place with which the first user achieves an exercise amount corresponding to his/her target exercise amount for each predetermined period, and in the database, information about, for each of a plurality of predetermined working places, an exercise amount that is achieved when the first user moves from his/her residence place to that working place or information necessary to determine this exercise amount being registered; and an output unit configured to output information about the working place assigned to the first user.