Exercise Gamification Interface for Real-Time Pace Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise routines can feel tedious and mechanical, diminishing user motivation to persevere until their exercise goal is reached, necessitating innovative technologies to gamify pacing and enhance user engagement.
Innovation Solution
Systems and methods that utilize a combination of hardware and software to gamify exercise routines by receiving signals indicative of exercise equipment movement repetitions, presenting pacing elements on a display, regulating movement pace, and providing collision indications, with a mobile device serving as a gamification display for exercise machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional pacing technologies are used to regulate exercise routine pace, then exercise goal achievement and injury prevention are improved, but user motivation and engagement deteriorate due to tedious and mechanical experience
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time visual feedback through graphical elements representing exercise repetitions and pacing elements on a display. Users see immediate visual confirmation of their progress and pace, which motivates them to maintain proper form and pace while working toward their exercise goals. The feedback loop includes visual indicators that respond to user performance in real-time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces graphical representations (pacing elements, collision indicators) as intermediaries between the exercise machine and the user. These visual intermediaries translate mechanical exercise data into engaging game-like visuals that motivate users without interfering with the actual exercise mechanics or safety.
2Ease of operation
If gamification elements are added to exercise routines to improve user engagement, then user motivation is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise machine's existing display and sensor systems are made multi-functional by overlaying gamification graphics on top of conventional exercise information. The same hardware components serve both traditional exercise monitoring and gamified engagement purposes, avoiding the need for separate dedicated systems while still achieving enhanced user engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies of exercise progress through graphical representations. Instead of requiring complex physical gamification mechanisms, the system uses visual copies (graphical elements representing reps, pacing indicators) that replicate exercise progress in an engaging format without adding physical complexity to the exercise machine itself.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and computer readable medium are provided for gamifying a physical exertion session. Gamifying a physical exertion session may include receiving signals indicative of exercise equipment movement repetitions, the signals corresponding to at least one property of manual exercise movements; presenting via a display, a controllable element being movable along a first axis; presenting a plurality of pacing elements movable along a plurality of second axes transverse to the first axis, wherein movement of the pacing elements corresponds to a desired pace of the exercise equipment movement repetitions; regulating movement of the controllable element along the first axis to correspond to the speeds of the manual exercise movements; determining collisions between the controllable element movable along the first axis and the plurality of pacing elements movable along the plurality of transverse second axes; and upon determination of a collision, causing a collision indication to appear on the display.