8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

HeartBeat Demonstrator: Tactile Support for Keeping a Target Heart Rate

  • @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.