作者：Meng-Chieh Yu, Cheng-Chih Tsai, Shih-Ta Liu, Hao-Tien Chiang, Ying-Chieh Tseng, Wei-Ting Chen, Wan-Wei Teo, Mike Y. Chen, Ming-Sui Lee, Yi-Ping Hung
摘要：i-m-Walk is a mobile application that uses pressure sensors in shoes to visualize phases of footsteps on a mobile device in order to raise the awareness for the user’s walking behavior and to help him improve it. As an example application in slow technology, we use i-m-Walk to help beginners learn “walking meditation,” a type of meditation where users aim to be as slow as possible in taking pace, and to land every footstep with toes first. In our experiment, we asked 30 participants to learn walking meditation over a period of 5 days; the experimental group used i-m-Walk from day 2 to day 4, and the control group did not use it. The results showed that i-m-Walk could effectively assist beginners in slowing down the walking speed and decreasing the incorrect rate of pace during walking meditation. To conclude, this study may be of importance in providing a mechanism to assist users in better understanding of his pace and improving the walking habits. In the future, i-m-Walk could be used in other application, such as walking rehabilitation.
關鍵字：Smart Shoes, Walking Meditation, Visual Feedback, Slow Technology
原始論文 DOI： https://doi.org/10.5220/0003118800170026