A Study on Efficient Digitization of Physical Fitness Measurement Data Using Smartphones

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  • スマートフォンを用いた体力測定・記録業務の効率化に関する一検討

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With the continued aging of society, the number of people requiring continuous exercise for the purpose of rehabilitation and maintenance of physical functioning has increased, leading to more people using day-care services. Day-care services involve the performance of regular physical fitness measurements to understand users' physical functions and for creating exercise programs tailored to each individual's conditions. However, tasks such as measuring physical fitness and recording of results are often carried out using so-called “analogue” methods. For service providers with many users, the workload for those tasks is high, pointing to room for improving efficiency. Given this situation, we describe in this paper a prototype system aimed at improving the efficiency of physical fitness measurement operations by using a smartphone as a terminal for simultaneously performing measurements and recording of results. With the cooperation of a day-care center providing actual services, we established a system suitable for field use by obtaining feedback from the field through repeated implementation and testing of functions. The measurement tasks performed on the prototype system are for general-purpose measurement of physical fitness for the elderly. The approach proposed in this system can be used in various situations. Using the prototype system, we conducted simulated physical fitness measurements, which demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the time required for measurements and increase the efficiency of related operations.

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