ActiveBreak - AI-Powered Productivity Timer

ActiveBreak is a Chrome extension that enforces healthy exercise breaks using AI-powered webcam tracking. It helps you stay productive and healthy by requiring you to complete a physical exercise—verified by your webcam—before you can resume work.

Features

• ⏰ Customizable Break Intervals: Set how often you want to be reminded to take a break (e.g., every 20 or 30 minutes, or 1 hour).
• 🏋️ Exercise Variety: Choose from Jumping Jacks, Squats, Push-ups, or let the extension pick a random exercise for you.
• 🤖 AI-Powered Verification: Uses on-device AI pose detection (MediaPipe) to verify that you actually perform the exercise.
• 🔒 Privacy First: All AI processing runs locally in your browser. Your webcam feed never leaves your device.
• 🎨 Modern, Accessible UI: Clean, user-friendly popup and overlay with accessibility in mind.

How It Works

1. Set Up: Click the extension icon and choose your break interval and exercise.
2. Work: The timer runs in the background while you work.
3. Break Time: When it's time for a break, an overlay appears on your screen, blocking access until you complete the exercise.
4. AI Verification: The extension uses your webcam and AI pose detection to verify the exercise.
5. Resume Work: Once verified, the overlay disappears and you can continue working.

Installation

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Go to chrome://extensions in your Chrome browser.
3. Enable "Developer mode" (top right).
4. Click "Load unpacked" and select the ActiveBreak project folder.

File Structure

ActiveBreak/
  background.js         # Handles alarms, break logic, and messaging
  content/
    overlay.js          # Injected overlay and AI pose detection logic
    overlay.css         # Styles for the break overlay
  icons/
    logo.png            # Extension icon
  manifest.json         # Chrome extension manifest
  popup/
    popup.html          # Extension popup UI
    popup.js            # Popup logic (timer setup, status)
    popup.css           # Popup styles

Privacy

• Your camera feed is never sent anywhere—all AI runs locally in your browser.
• No data leaves your device.

Technologies Used

• Chrome Extensions API (Manifest V3)
• JavaScript (ES6+)
• MediaPipe Pose for AI exercise detection
• HTML/CSS (modern, accessible design)

Contributing

Pull requests and suggestions are welcome! Please open an issue to discuss your ideas.

License

MIT License