HeartBeat Demonstrator: Tactile Support for Keeping a Target Heart Rate

Janko Timmermann; Benjamin Poppinga; Wilko Heuten; Susanne Boll

8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

HeartBeat Demonstrator: Tactile Support for Keeping a Target Heart Rate

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255386,
    author={Janko Timmermann and Benjamin Poppinga and Wilko Heuten and Susanne Boll},
    title={HeartBeat Demonstrator: Tactile Support for Keeping a Target Heart Rate},
    proceedings={8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2014},
    month={7},
    keywords={tactile feedback; heart rate; physical activity},
    doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255386}
}

Janko Timmermann
Benjamin Poppinga
Wilko Heuten
Susanne Boll
Year: 2014
HeartBeat Demonstrator: Tactile Support for Keeping a Target Heart Rate
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255386

Janko Timmermann¹^,*, Benjamin Poppinga², Wilko Heuten¹, Susanne Boll²

1: OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany
2: University of Oldenburg, Germany

*Contact email: janko.timmermann@offis.de

Abstract

Physical activity should be performed within certain intensity limits. In this paper, we present a demonstrator which encodes different heart rate zones with continuous vibrotactile feedback. The demonstrator uses a tactile design created in a participatory design study and has shown to raise the awareness of the heart rate in a user study.

Keywords: tactile feedback; heart rate; physical activity

Published: 2014-07-23
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255386