MPTrain: A Mobile, Physiology and Music-Based Personal Trainer on your Mobile Phone
Abstract
MPTrain is a mobile phone-based system that takes advantage of the influence of music on exercise performance, enabling users to easily achieve their exercise goals. Users enter a desired exercise pattern (target heart rate over time), and MPTrain assists them by: (1) constantly monitoring heart rate and pace; and (2) selecting and playing music with specific features that encourage the user to speed up, slow down, or maintain pace to stay on track.
MPTrain hardware: AliveTec chestband with ECG, accelerometer, and Bluetooth; Audiovox smartphone.
MPTrain data flow diagram.
See also the successor system: TripleBeat.
Publications
MPTrain: A Mobile Music and Physiology Based Personal Trainer Nuria Oliver and Fernando Flores-Mangas. MobileHCI 2006, Helsinki, Finland, September 2006.
PAPA: Physiology and Purpose-Aware Automatic Playlist Generation Nuria Oliver and Lucas Kreger-Stickles. ISMIR 2006, Victoria, Canada, October 2006.
Enhancing Exercise Performance through Real-time Physiological Monitoring and Music: A User Study Nuria Oliver and Lucas Kreger-Stickles. Pervasive Health 2006, Innsbruck, Austria, November 2006.