Self-Conscious Support on Walking Posture Through Mobile Avatar: Focusing on Women's Frailty Prevention Toward Old Age

摘要

An aging population in a society leads to higher expenditure on social security and medical care. To reduce the cost of treatment, it is essential that preventing frailty of nearly aged women by undertaking habitual physical exercise such as walking, since 70% of national nursing expense is for this cohort. However, if walking activity has performed with bad posture, it will result in musculoskeletal disease. Therefore, a system that supports to correct walking activity is required. In this research, we propose a system that promotes each users walking habits, including daily steps and walking posture. The result of the experiment suggested that Avatar-based gait representation improves the self-consciousness of users' walking posture significantly rather than number-based representation.