Students and staff can now download WorkPace, a programme meant to prevent RSI. WorkPace is software that registers the use of mouse and keyboard. On the basis of the registration and personal settings, small pop-up screens make suggestions for the best moments to take short or longer breaks. Every so often the programme offers a set of stretching exercises that have been proven to prevent RSI.
Offering WorkPace was initiated by the RSI-working group of the (late) Student Trade Union (SRD). Student Services and Campus (DiSC), the Occupational Health and Safety Service (AMD), the Personnel Department (PA&O) and the CIV support the central RSI-policy, of which this software programme is the first outcome.
The programme can be found on www.utwente.nl/civ.
