• DocumentCode
    575348
  • Title

    Measurement and control of physical strength in motion

  • Author

    Sentoku, Kosuke ; Takayama, Shigeru

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Ritsumeikan Univ. BKC, Kusatsu, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    20-23 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    591
  • Lastpage
    596
  • Abstract
    Facilities for travel are developing conveniently in recent years. A lot of people do not exercise sufficiently in daily life. As a result, the life-style related diseases like high blood pressure and obesity increase. A moderate exercise is very important to keep a healthy body for them but it is too difficult to know how to exercise moderately. Then, this paper shows the audio advising system and method to keep a moderate exercise with heart rate (HR). Additionally, a user is able to choose the exercise level from light exercise to heavy exercise.
  • Keywords
    biomechanics; biomedical measurement; body area networks; body sensor networks; mechanical strength; medical control systems; motion measurement; audio advising system; body area network; exercise level; heart rate; life-style related diseases; physical strength control; physical strength measurement; Accelerometers; Batteries; Ear; Headphones; Heart rate; Humans; Legged locomotion; Dynamic measurement; Physical strength; Sensing system;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2012 Proceedings of
  • Conference_Location
    Akita
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2259-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6318507