Burn in Zone: Real time Heart Rate monitoring for physical activity

The number of time that heart beats per one minute we call it as the heart rate or pulse. It is an indicator for monitoring health. In this paper, we present the Burn in Zone: Physical activity real-time heart rate monitoring, a novel model to help people who prefer to have a more physical activity to continue their intention in the long term. We were mainly interested in real-time heart rate monitoring and target heart rate zone, not its ability to change behavior. This model will help those people to monitor their heart rate while having physical activity in line with their target heart rate or training heart rate (THR). THR is the desired range of heart rate reached during physical activity. It is calculated from the percentage of the physical activity intensity (PAI) multiply with Maximum Heart Rate (MHR), the highest heart rate of each person can work efficiently and safely without severe problems through exercise stress. In this research, we developed an android wear application for getting a real-time pulse from the heart sensor in Android Smart Watch. We had collected data from undergraduate and graduate students from the School of Informatics, Walailak University, who volunteer to be part of this experiment. There are twenty-six volunteers with age ranges from nineteen to forty-two-year-olds. Among the volunteers, there are twelve males (46.15%) and fourteen females (53.85%). We separated the samples into two groups, controlled group and experimental group. The experimental criteria are cycling on a stationary bicycle with six minutes for each people. Results from the experiment showed that the percentage of heart rate of the controlled group and the experimental group were consistent with the experimental setup criteria for monitoring the heart rate data on Android wear. For future work, we plan to implement the game design elements to encourage the people to have more level of physical activity and continue their physical activity.