Exercise becomes Music: Creating communication through new music experiences using exercise data

This is a new communication proposal using data acquired by Physiological signal measurement. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, opportunities for exercise have been decreasing as people have fewer opportunities to go outside. For this reason, we have created several exercise guidance contents that can be used on a daily basis. The data obtained from the exercise guidance contents can be used in various ways. For example, in a physical education class, the children were motivated to improve their exercise by seeing the actual data of their exercise. There are three exercise guidance contents, each of which has its own feedback loop of acquiring data and utilizing it. "Exercise becomes Music"is an attempt to use them in a more meta way to motivate people to exercise, and to create a larger feedback loop throughout. The data acquired from the exercise guidance content is converted into music that makes the most of the characteristics of each content, and the content is designed to be played by the experiencer while combining the generated music. The surprise of having one's own data converted into music, and the experience of playing with the combination of data, will create feedback for each exercise, and we also hope that sharing the combined music online will create new communication. © 2022 IEEE.

Development of a Music Interactive Online Fitness System for Shoulder Press Exercise: Latest Update for Biosignal Art

Global COVID-19 pandemic limited our ability to have adequate physical activity. It is necessary to replace outdoor and gymnasium exercise with in-door and home-based fitness. However, little effort has been paid for solving the new rising problems for the new alternative fitness, such as insufficient system access, lack of exercise skill, and motivation. To make a response to these problems, we updated and published a new online fitness system: Biosignal Art (BA) for shoulder press exercise on July 1, 2020. Shoulder press motion is captured by a web camera and evaluated through an original algorithm consisted of arms initial position, forearm position, and motion rhythm. Music interactive feedback according to the shoulder press performance is also provided after the exercise and can be downloaded by the users. We collected and analyzed the access status data nine months after the first release of the new BA system. By the end of April 2021, a total of 287 visitors accessed and performed the shoulder press exercise through the new BA system. 55% of them acquired fifty shoulder press points or higher. Facing the severe COVID-19 pandemic situation, we expect the Biosignal Art system can help more people to keep inadequate physical activity. © 2021 IEEE.