Heart Rate Feedback for Brain Function Exercise Adherence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often lack awareness of appropriate exercise intensity for improving brain function, leading to insufficient or inappropriate exercises, which can result in discontinuation of regular exercise routines aimed at suppressing or improving brain function.
Innovation Solution
A brain function improvement device that measures heart rate, calculates and displays a target exercise intensity and duration time, and provides visual feedback to ensure exercises are performed at an effective intensity for brain function improvement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users perform exercise independently without guidance, then users have freedom of choice, but exercise intensity may be insufficient or inappropriate for brain function improvement
Solution Approach 1:
The device continuously monitors heart rate and compares it against target values, providing real-time feedback through visual and audio signals. This allows users to independently perform exercise while receiving guidance on maintaining appropriate intensity levels, resolving the contradiction between exercise independence and intensity accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual monitoring and subjective assessment of exercise intensity with automated electronic measurement of heart rate. This substitution enables precise objective measurement of exercise intensity while maintaining user independence in performing the exercise.
2Reliability
If users lack confidence in exercise appropriateness, then users may discontinue exercise routines, but continued monitoring increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The device provides continuous feedback through visual display and audio signals to confirm when exercise intensity targets are met. This reassures users that their exercise is appropriate, increasing confidence and consistency while keeping the monitoring system relatively simple through use of standard components.
3Productivity
If target exercise intensity is not clearly defined, then users cannot achieve optimal brain function improvement, but calculation and display systems increase device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The device calculates target heart rate based on user-specific parameters (age, resting heart rate) and displays these as clear numerical targets. This provides objectively defined exercise intensity parameters optimized for brain function improvement while using straightforward calculation methods that don't excessively increase device complexity.
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AI summary
A brain function improvement facilitating device includes: a storage; a display screen; a timer; a heart rate measurement unit; a target exercise intensity calculator; a setting unit; a first determiner that determines whether a heart rate of a user is greater than or equal to a target heart rate set by the setting unit; a duration time measurement controller that performs control to measure a duration time in which the heart rate of the user is greater than or equal to the target heart rate if the heart rate of the user is determined to be greater than or equal to the target heart rate; a second determiner that determines whether a total of the duration time measured within a predetermined time limit has reached the target time set by the setting unit; a storage controller that controls the storage to store information indicating that the duration time has reached the target time if it is determined that the total of the duration time has reached the target time; a display data generator that generates display data to be displayed on a display screen based on reaching the target time if it is determined that the duration time has reached the target time; and a display controller that controls the display screen to display at least one of the calculated target heart rate, actual related data and time, or the display data.