Design and development of the medFit app: A mobile application for cardiovascular disease rehabilitation

  • Ghanashyama Prabhu*
  • , Jogile Kuklyte
  • , Leonardo Gualano
  • , Kaushik Venkataraman
  • , Amin Ahmadi
  • , Orlaith Duff
  • , Deirdre Walsh
  • , Catherine Woods
  • , Noel E. O’Connor
  • , Kieran Moran
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Rehabilitation from cardiovascular disease (CVD) usually requires lifestyle changes, especially an increase in exercise and physical activity. However, uptake and adherence to exercise is low for community-based programmes. We propose a mobile application that allows users to choose the type of exercise and compete it at a convenient time in the comfort of their own home. Grounded in a behaviour change framework, the application provides feedback and encouragement to continue exercising and to improve on previous results. The application also utilizes wearable wireless technologies in order to provide highly personalized feedback. The application can accurately detect if a specific exercise is being done, and count the associated number of repetitions utilizing accelerometer or gyroscope signals Machine learning models are employed to recognize individual local muscular endurance (LME) exercises, achieving overall accuracy of more than 98%. This technology allows providing a near real-time personalized feedback which mimics the feedback that the user might expect from an instructor. This is provided to motivate users to continue the recovery process.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationWireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - 7th International Conference, MobiHealth 2017, Proceedings
    EditorsAmir M. Rahmani, Nima TaheriNejad, Paolo Perego
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages20-28
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)9783319985503
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018
    Event7th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2017 - Vienna, Austria
    Duration: 14-11-201715-11-2017

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
    Volume247
    ISSN (Print)1867-8211

    Conference

    Conference7th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2017
    Country/TerritoryAustria
    CityVienna
    Period14-11-1715-11-17

    All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

    • Computer Networks and Communications

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