TY - GEN
T1 - Proper running posture guide
T2 - 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks, BODYNETS 2013
AU - Zhang, Xiaoyi
AU - Huang, Ming Chun
AU - Ren, Fengbo
AU - Xu, Wenyao
AU - Guan, Nan
AU - Yi, Wang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 ICST 978-1-936968-89-3.
PY - 2013/10/29
Y1 - 2013/10/29
N2 - Running is a popular exercise for all age groups. It helps heart and lung functions, enhances muscle strength and control weight. Nevertheless, excessive fatigue and severe injury resulting from inappropriate running poses might reduce the benefits brought by this exercise and stop people from keeping running regularly. In this paper, we design a system that can monitor the running biomechanics, infer running poses, analyze running patterns, and provide both real-time and off-line feedbacks to reduce unnecessary fatigue and unwanted injuries. Common inappropriate running patterns, over-striding, over-pronating and out-sync, are identified and analyzed with the continuous wearable sensor data streams. Two types of correctional feedbacks are designed to provide users appropriate adjustment guidance: vibrating the areas of user body where improper poses are detected and visualizing running video with sensor waveforms to indicate which inappropriate motions trigger the vibration. With reasonable adjustment, running can be a safe and effective activity for a healthy lifestyle.
AB - Running is a popular exercise for all age groups. It helps heart and lung functions, enhances muscle strength and control weight. Nevertheless, excessive fatigue and severe injury resulting from inappropriate running poses might reduce the benefits brought by this exercise and stop people from keeping running regularly. In this paper, we design a system that can monitor the running biomechanics, infer running poses, analyze running patterns, and provide both real-time and off-line feedbacks to reduce unnecessary fatigue and unwanted injuries. Common inappropriate running patterns, over-striding, over-pronating and out-sync, are identified and analyzed with the continuous wearable sensor data streams. Two types of correctional feedbacks are designed to provide users appropriate adjustment guidance: vibrating the areas of user body where improper poses are detected and visualizing running video with sensor waveforms to indicate which inappropriate motions trigger the vibration. With reasonable adjustment, running can be a safe and effective activity for a healthy lifestyle.
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U2 - 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253700
DO - 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253700
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85119709908
T3 - BODYNETS 2013 - 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks
SP - 83
EP - 89
BT - BODYNETS 2013 - 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks
A2 - Suzuki, Junichi
A2 - Wang, Honggang
PB - ICST
Y2 - 30 September 2013 through 2 October 2013
ER -