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Open-Source Projects Providing Training Diary Record Mobile Software

Jose Teixeira, Open-Source Projects Providing Training Diary Record Mobile Software. In: Reima Suomi, Ilkka Ilveskoski (Eds.), Navigating the Fragmented Innovation Landscape, TUCS General Publication 56, 181-192, Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2010.

Abstract:

A sports training diary records an athlete daily training details such as the volume and intensity of daily workouts, the amount of sleep and the early morning hearth rate. Also know by other terms such as training log and sports tracker, these records are extremely important for the athletes and coaches both from a performance and a clinical point of view.

In recent years, these records turned to a digital era. Newer and sophisticated information systems easy the adjustment of training programs, the benchmark of different athlete's performances, the detection of over-training symptoms, the identification of risk of injuries, etc.

The advances in mobile devices industry are shaping the way how athletes record and analyses their training data. This research first aim is to recognize what are the open-source software projects providing mobile training diary record software. Secondly this research collects and analyses the feedback that those users trying those applications are providing on the Internet.

A total of five open-source software projects were identified covering a total of three different mobile phone platforms. Internet pages around each project where carefully observed in order to analyze the feedback that those users are giving to different projects. The considerable amount of positive feedback and new feature requests suggest that these applications popularity will increase while the open-source developers implement new features directly addressing sports use needs.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpTeixeira_Jose10a,
  title = {Open-Source Projects Providing Training Diary Record Mobile Software},
  booktitle = {Navigating the Fragmented Innovation Landscape},
  author = {Teixeira, Jose},
  volume = {56},
  series = {TUCS General Publication},
  editor = {Suomi, Reima and Ilveskoski, Ilkka},
  publisher = {Turku Centre for Computer Science},
  pages = {181-192},
  year = {2010},
  keywords = {Training diary, Sports tracker, Open-source, GPS, Heart-rate monitor},
}

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