TripleBeat

TripleBeat is the next-generation MPTrain system — a mobile phone-based personal trainer that leverages the influence of music and competition on exercise performance to help users achieve their fitness goals.

Features

  1. Training proposals: Based on the user's high-level goals (e.g., fat loss, cardiovascular improvement), TripleBeat selects the appropriate training zone.
  2. Competition: Users can virtually compete against their past performances or with partners, following the proposed workout as closely as possible.
  3. Audio feedback: Songs are selected from the smartphone's library based on musical features that encourage the user to speed up, slow down, or maintain pace.
  4. Visual feedback: A green screen indicates the user's heart rate is within the target training zone; red indicates adjustment is needed. Additional data displayed includes calories burned, workout duration, current song, and competition standing.

Hardware

TripleBeat uses the AliveTec chestband (with ECG, accelerometer, and Bluetooth sensors) paired with a smartphone.

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.

Press