XrCycling
XRCycling is a platform that can be used with mobile applications or Virtual Reality (VR), transforming exercise bike workouts into an enjoyable and effective experience through gamification technology. The system aims to boost users' sports motivation by offering personalized plans tailored to each user's exercise goals, supporting both those who prefer exercising at home and individuals undergoing rehabilitation in developing an active lifestyle.
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Features and Benefits
XRCycling personalizes and gamifies exercise bike workouts by leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and artificial intelligence. The system transforms workouts into engaging activities by providing realistic gaming experiences, moving away from monotonous routines. Real-time image processing and emotion analysis technologies perform fatigue detection by analyzing users' facial expressions. AI-powered fitness bots provide dynamic and personalized coaching and guidance based on this data.
Personalized Exercise Plans
By using artificial intelligence technologies such as image processing, emotion analysis, and voice chatbots, XRCycling offers personalized exercise bike programs tailored to users' fitness levels, goals, and preferences. These personalized workouts are designed at different difficulty levels for each user, allowing them to train with challenges suited to their needs and achieve more efficient progress. This approach supports users in optimizing their physical performance and achieving their long-term goals.
Gamified Exercise Experience
The platform gamifies workouts through dynamic and multi-layered gamification strategies to enhance individuals' motivation for exercising. Gamified exercises are part of an interactive system comprising various rewards and achievement levels, creating motivating experiences. Users both have fun at every step and strengthen their motivation to do sports with a sense of accomplishment.
Real-Time Image Processing
XRCycling optimizes the workout experience by detecting user movements through real-time image processing technologies. The system enables users to exercise with proper form through its hand detection and position recognition features. It enhances the accuracy of movements using the Optical Flow method and generates game control commands in virtual reality (VR) environments based on data collected from key points. This innovative integration of artificial intelligence and image processing makes workouts both effective and enjoyable, helping users achieve their goals faster.
Real-Time Emotion and Fatigue Analysis
XRCycling optimizes the workout experience through emotion analysis technology. The system evaluates physical conditions by analyzing facial expressions for fatigue and accurately interprets responses using models developed with transfer learning. By combining Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) methods, it dynamically tracks fatigue and provides users with real-time audio and visual feedback. This ensures that users have a safe and motivating workout experience.
Data-Driven Progress Tracking
Leveraging advanced data collection and analysis methods, the platform visualizes users' progress in their fitness journey through charts and statistics. This allows users to effectively track their progress in adopting an active lifestyle. This tracking system provides users with the necessary optimization and improvement suggestions to achieve their individual exercise goals, making their workout processes more effective.
Real-Time Performance Data Tracking
The system analyzes performance data such as speed, distance, and heart rate from the exercise bike, as well as muscle activity data from optional Electromyography (EMG) sensors, in real time. The system determines muscle fatigue levels with artificial intelligence and optimizes the workout by offering rest or intensity reduction suggestions when fatigue is detected. This approach ensures that users have both a healthy and efficient workout experience.
VR Technology Integration
The system transforms the exercise bike from an ordinary routine into an exciting experience through VR technology. Through physical and mental challenges such as racing and climbing hills in virtual tracks, users both enjoy themselves and stay motivated. Real-time integration enables instant responses to workouts using pedal speed sensors and gyroscope data. These features make exercising more engaging, reduce the risk of obesity and promote an active lifestyle.
Dynamic Exercise Management and Voice Guidance
The system analyzes physical performance data such as speed, distance and muscle fatigue by combining them with muscle activity data from EMG sensors. Artificial intelligence dynamically creates optimized workout plans based on this data. Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, the system processes voice commands and provides feedback to enhance motivation by offering guidance and suggestions. This approach enables users to reach their goals effectively and enjoyably.
Benefits for Patients:
XRCycling increases physical mobility by enabling patients to perform personalized exercises in an enjoyable way and thus helps them adopt a healthier lifestyle. By providing an enjoyable and motivating environment, it increases patients' desire to exercise and thus contributes to the development of a long-term exercise habit. Fatigue and performance tracking allows patients to manage their physical limits in a controlled manner, supporting their progress and minimizing the risk of injuries that may occur during the exercise process.
Benefits for Health Professionals:
Healthcare professionals can access detailed data about their patients' physical condition and exercise performance through XRCycling, enabling them to manage the treatment process more effectively. The system allows healthcare professionals to monitor patients' physical progress and intervene based on their needs, supporting the creation of more accurate and personalized treatment plans.The analyses provided by the system enable professionals to optimize patient recovery processes and provide safer treatment processes to their patients.
Benefits for Healthcare Systems, Providers and Authorities:
XRCycling alleviates the burden of chronic diseases on healthcare systems by offering effective solutions to combat health issues caused by physical inactivity, particularly obesity. By enabling patients to exercise effectively at home, it reduces healthcare costs and supports the more efficient use of resources. The platform's data analytics capabilities allow for comprehensive analyses of public health, and based on these analyses, health policies are developed.
Social Sharing Features
The system includes an integrated social platform that enables users to share their achievements on social media channels, participate in competitions and socialize through sports with their connections. This platform fosters the creation of an active community within the sports ecosystem and enables users to motivate each other to exercise.