Design and Implementation of Running Support System by Providing Common Routes of Runners

Abstract

This paper proposes the design and implementation of running support system using mobile devices. As technology continues to develop extremely quickly, new technologies provide more convenience, but their evolution simultaneously includes many problems. One of these problems, about which people are becoming more concerned, is the lack of exercise to maintain his/her health. Cellphones and smartphones have already become more intelligent and indispensable, and mobile applications (APPs) are no longer novel. Based on the integrated, multi-functional, personal customization, and other unique advantages of applications, modern society requires an exercise application that includes interaction, competition, and quality communication to encourage people to do more exercising. Such applications must motivate people to communicate with each other easily and discuss the daily process of their exercising. Such mobile applications might resemble a new kind of fitness application software that assists people become healthier. First, this paper performs survey research on the demand for health in daily life and what kind of exercise applications people might use to become healthier by smartphones. Our survey includes both people in Japan and from other countries. Through survey management, considering some specific samples, and analyzing their characteristics and flaws, we easily summarized and improved our application software. Next, based on the research results, it was not hard to find identical parts about the concepts of other exercise application software; we also explain our new design concept APP. Our explanation includes an automatic algorithm that generates a common path and a determination algorithm, both of which generate new fitness applications. In general, through these two algorithms, a common path was generated. In other words, the common path is the main concept that concerns new sport applications built on mobile phones. Finally, based on our design concept and the above algorithms, we implement fitness applications on an iOS that we call Run-Map-APP.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150752