Title :
Automated Individual Prescription of Exercise with an XML-based Expert System
Author :
Jang, S.J. ; Park, S.R. ; Jang, Y.G. ; Park, J.E. ; Yoon, Y.R. ; Park, S.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Gangwon
Abstract :
Continuously motivating people to exercise regularly is more important than finding a barriers such as lack of time, cost of equipment or gym membership, lack of nearby facilities and poor weather or night-time lighting. Our proposed system presents practicable methods of motivation through a Web-based exercise prescription service. Users are instructed to exercise according to their physical ability by means of an automated individual prescription of exercise checked and approved by a personal trainer or exercise specialist after being tested with the HIMS, fitness assessment system. Furthermore, utilizing BIOFIT exercise prescriptions scheduled by an expert system can help users exercise systematically. Automated individual prescriptions are built in XML based documents because the data needs to be flexible, expansible and convertible structures to process diverse exercise templates. Web-based exercise prescription service makes users stay interested in exercise even if they live in many different environments
Keywords :
Internet; XML; biomechanics; diagnostic expert systems; medical computing; BIOFIT exercise prescriptions; HIMS; Web-based exercise prescription service; XML-based expert system; automated individual prescription; fitness assessment system; Biomedical engineering; Educational institutions; Expert systems; Frequency; Health information management; Heart rate; Medical expert systems; Muscles; System testing; XML; Automated Exercise Prescription; XML; exercise template;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616556
