Development of Exercise Promotion System Using Smartphone and AI Speaker

The average human life expectancy has been gradually extended; thus, development of novel approaches to extend healthy life expectancy have gained considerable research attention. Although it is well-known that habitual exercise is an effective way of extending healthy life expectancy, we have found that few people actually continue exercising regularly. Consequently, we have devised a system for promoting exercise using a smartphone and an artificial intelligence (AI) speaker. After confirming that the number of repetitions of an exercise recommended to a user (via the exercise content presented to them) can be detected using smartphone sensors, we integrated the smartphone and AI speaker into one system via the cloud. This system allows the user to receive advice from the AI speaker after exercising. In the future, we will investigate whether the proposed method can significantly encourage changes in exercise-related awareness and behavior compared to existing smartphone apps used for health management.