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Title:
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POTENTIALS EVALUATION FOR INSTANT USABILITY
OF SMARTPHONE APPS IN HEALTH AND SPORTS
ENDURANCE ACTIVITY TRACKING |
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Author(s):
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Hans Weghorn |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-89-0 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2019 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Ubiquitous Health Monitoring, Sports Tracking Tools, Personalized Mobility, Elderly Care, Smartphone Training Apps |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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183 |
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Last Page:
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190 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Systematic control of physical workouts is required for achieving good curing or caring effects in health activities as well
as for sustaining or even improving fitness level in non-elite and professional sports. For this purpose, respectivelywearable
medical monitors as also a wide range of personal sports computers were commonly in use since longer time. With the
overwhelming evolvement of the smartphone market, health and sports monitoring was identified also as prospective
working field for app developers. Accordingly, numerous smartphone apps are offered meanwhile for endurance training,
many of them even as so-called freeware. An investigation is presented here about the required efforts in setup and in daily
use as also about the reliability of such smartphone monitoring, taking especially into account the needs of possible elderly
users. Furthermore, it is critically discussed in this work, whether smartphone apps really can replace the instant and
seamless use mode of traditional sports computers. |
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