An integrated software-hardware exercise encouraging system / Kong Sibo
With the rapid development of technology, transportation, and urbanization, people’s physical requirement is greatly reduced, and the mental load of many jobs is increased at the same time. Young people are now more likely to sit in front of a screen than go out for exercise. Lack of physical act...
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2022
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| Online Access: | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/14690/2/Kong_Sibo.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/14690/1/Kong_Sibo.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/14690/ |
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| Summary: | With the rapid development of technology, transportation, and urbanization, people’s
physical requirement is greatly reduced, and the mental load of many jobs is increased
at the same time. Young people are now more likely to sit in front of a screen than go
out for exercise. Lack of physical activity leads to an increased risk of a variety of
chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. This study
proposed an integrated system for physical exercise, comprising an exercise monitoring
wearable device and an exercise encouraging mobile application. The developed system
captures the users’ heart rate, blood oxygen and body temperature in real-time while the
users are exercising. The STM32F103 board was used as the main control chip, the
MAX30102 sensor for collecting users’ heart rate and blood oxygen, whereas the
MAX30205 sensor for collecting users’ body temperature. Bluetooth low power module
was chosen for communication with Android. Android Studio was used as the software
development tool for the mobile application that receives sensor signals and records the
signals as data. Analysis and visualization of data, as well as risk alerting, are among the
functions of the mobile application. The application encourages exercise through
exercise reminder, exercise goal setting, sign in, and other features. After implementing
the system, 10 participants aged 18-30 years old were recruited for a six-week
experiment using qualitative and quantitative methods. The study first assessed the
effectiveness of the developed integrated system in encouraging exercise among the
participants. Next, the importance of the exercise monitoring wearable device in
encouraging exercise was studied. Finally, the effectiveness of the system in
maintaining the participants’ active lifestyle was studied. The results show that the
system was effective in improving and maintaining participants’ physical activity and
the wearable device played a role in encouraging physical activity. The participants also
reported little to no discomfort when using the system.
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