Wearable Sensing Technology for Capturing and Sharing Emotional Experience of Running

Running is one of the most popular exercises for maintaining physically active. Current technology is limited to capturing performance measurements such as speed, distance, cadence, etc. Research shows that the running experience is much richer and more complex and go well beyond what existing technology can currently provide. This research addresses the question of how wearable sensing technology can capture, recognize, represent, and share the emotional, physiological, cognitive experience of long-distance running. Taking a phenomenologically situated perspective, this research focuses on the running experience in real-life contexts (e.g. outdoor training and marathon) rather than the controlled laboratory conditions. The first phase of this research focuses on understanding the experience of running from the runner and spectator's perspectives. The second phase explores affective computing techniques and ubiquitous wearable sensors to capture and share aspects of it.