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IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 2005 E88-D(8):1985-1992; doi:10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.8.1985
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Copyright © 2005 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Regular Section -- Papers -- Biological Engineering

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

Zhihui WANG1, Tohru KIRYU1, Mamoru IWAKI1 and Keisuke SHIBAI1

1 The authors are with the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata-shi, 950–2181 Japan. E-mail: wzh{at}bsp.bc.niigata-u.ac.jp

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.

Key Words: cycle ergometer, health promotion, multi-tiered client/server architecture, personally fitted exercise

Manuscript received April 30, 2004. Manuscript revised March 1, 2005.


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