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Individuals with lower mobility impairment face many barriers to regular, appropriately intense exercise. To combat these barriers and the resulting cardiometabolic disease risk, we are developing a mobile fitness system to promote and facilitate exercises which can be done in wheelchairs in the convenience of one’s home. This mobile fitness system exploits computing and wireless sensing to promote exercise in a number of ways: (A) monitoring a fitness metric which users find a reliable and trustworthy; (B) gamifying exercises; (C) healthy, friendly competition with other users; and (D) providing text notifications as reminders to exercise.
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Sunthonlap, J. et al. (2019). Promoting Exercise in Wheelchairs Through Wireless Sensing and Computing in a Mobile App. In: Benavente-Peces, C., Cam-Winget, N., Fleury, E., Ahrens, A. (eds) Sensor Networks. SENSORNETS SENSORNETS 2018 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1074. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30110-1_7
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