Interfacing sensors and virtual world health avatar application

In this paper, a new mobile application system that controls health avatars on mobile devices is proposed. The status of health avatars reflects personal physical state of a user, which is converted and estimated by data gathered from sensors attached to exercise equipment or from the time spent on a specific exercise routine on specific equipment installed in a U-Health park. Especially in this paper, we confine ourselves on introduction to a metadata application system that converts sensor signals to MPEG-V International Standard data format (ISO/IEC 23005-5). The proposed system utilizes the biometric metadata written in standard data formats from sensors to visualize virtual world health avatars, which make users recognize their health condition without difficulty. The health avatar system and its application scenario are presented in this paper.