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An Internet-Based Cycle Ergometer Health Promotion System for Providing Personally Fitted Exercise

Zhihui WANG, Tohru KIRYU, Mamoru IWAKI, Keisuke SHIBAI

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General exercise approaches are not convenient for some people in undertaking appropriate exercise due to the limited variety of present programs at existing exercise machines. Moreover, continuous support by one sports doctor is only available for a limited number of users. In this paper, therefore, we propose an Internet-based technical framework, which is designed on multi-tiered client/server architecture, for integrating and easily upgrading exercise programs. By applying the technical framework, a cycle ergometer health promotion system was developed for providing personally fitted. We also presented some facilities to assist sports doctors in quickly designing and remotely improving individual exercise protocols against cycle ergometer exercise based on a history database. Then we evaluated the Internet-based cycle ergometer system during two months of feasibility experiments for six elderly persons in terms of usability. As a result, the Internet-based cycle ergometer system was effective for continuously supporting the personal fitting procedure.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E88-D No.8 pp.1985-1992
Publication Date
2005/08/01
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DOI
10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.8.1985
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Biological Engineering

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