力量訓練可以改善健康,健康,身體形象和運動表現。在力量訓練期間,肌肉反復經歷3個階段的變化,從肌肉縮短(同心)到保持相同的長度(等距)到延長(離心)。這種同心-等距-離心循環的時間稱為「節奏」,三個階段之間的最佳比例因不同的目標而不同。本文介紹了「動力節奏」,一種可穿戴設備,引導用戶透過一系列震動回饋來遵循節奏。我們首先進行了一項20人的用戶定義研究,以了解人們如何將振動回饋映射到不同的力量訓練動作,並分析了100種振動模式以確定最佳的震動模式。接著我們實作了「動力節奏」雛形裝置,在12人評估結果顯示,用戶可以根據設計的振動觸覺反饋區分當前的重複階段,我們的系統顯著提高了節奏精度達28%(p<0.01)。與沒有振動反饋和簡化的振動反饋相比,參與者更傾向於用戶定義的振動反饋模式到其他條件(75%)和額定用戶定義的振動反饋模式在性能方面更好。
Strength training improves fitness, health, body image, and athletic performance. During strength training, the muscles repeatedly go through 3 stages of changes in length, from shortening (concentric) to maintaining the same length (isometric) to lengthening (eccentric). The timing of this concentric-isometric-eccentric cycle is called tempo and the optimal ratio between the three phases is different for different goals. This paper presents PowerTempo, a wearable device which guides users to follow the tempo by series of vibrations. We first conducted a 20-person user-defined study to understand how people map vibration to different strength training motions and tempo, and analyzed 100 vibration patterns to identify the best candidates. We implemented a PowerTempo prototype and our 12-person evaluation results show that vibrotactile feedback significantly improved tempo accuracy by up to 28% (p<0.01). Participants preferred user-defined vibration feedback pattern to other conditions and rated user-defined vibration feedback pattern better in terms of performance than no vibration feedback and simplified vibration feedback (75%).