Many medical researches, conducted on people from developed countries, have proved a strict correlation between some health diseases and a sedentary lifestyle. Obesity and linked pathologies like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are alarmingly becoming ever more common in rich societies. The most effective solution to these problems, as reported by the former studies, is a healthy diet regime together with a constant and monitored physical activity. As a consequence, many research efforts have been carried on finding strategies for motivating people to exercise regularly. In this paper, by taking advantage of the growing spread of mobile devices on a worldwide scale, we present an Android-based mobile application, called Everywhere Run, that aims at motivating and supporting people during their running activities. It behaves as a virtual personal trainer, assisting users during their run and helping them to stick to the right pace. In this way, users can fully focus on the run. Most important, Everywhere Run fosters the interaction between users and real personal trainers, in order to make it easy to non expert people to start working out in a healthy and safe way.
Everywhere Run: a Virtual Personal Trainer for Supporting People in their Running Activity
MULAS, FABRIZIO;CARTA, SALVATORE MARIO;PILLONI, PAOLO;BORATTO, LUDOVICO
2013-01-01
Abstract
Many medical researches, conducted on people from developed countries, have proved a strict correlation between some health diseases and a sedentary lifestyle. Obesity and linked pathologies like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are alarmingly becoming ever more common in rich societies. The most effective solution to these problems, as reported by the former studies, is a healthy diet regime together with a constant and monitored physical activity. As a consequence, many research efforts have been carried on finding strategies for motivating people to exercise regularly. In this paper, by taking advantage of the growing spread of mobile devices on a worldwide scale, we present an Android-based mobile application, called Everywhere Run, that aims at motivating and supporting people during their running activities. It behaves as a virtual personal trainer, assisting users during their run and helping them to stick to the right pace. In this way, users can fully focus on the run. Most important, Everywhere Run fosters the interaction between users and real personal trainers, in order to make it easy to non expert people to start working out in a healthy and safe way.
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