open-source training diary software_ final.v0.8

J. Teixeira 23/07/11 @ROME.IT © Slide 1

IADIS ICT Society and Humans 2011

Jose Teixeira @TSERome, July 2011


Open-source mobile software supporting athletes and sport enthusiasts


The 'dilemma' of presenting preventive health research

Source: Lindström et al. 2010


Outline

•Training diary records •Scope and methodology•The found open-source projects•Open-source vs commercial•Findings and implications•Future research


Training diary records


Training diary records(I) What ?

Log athlete's training details for posterior analysis

Better adaptation of training plans

Clinical and sports performance benefits


Training diary records(II) Also know as …

•sports tracker•training log•training diary•workouts log•workouts diary•athletic log

•heart rate log•running log•cycling log•swimming log•run log•cycle log •swim log


Training diary records(III) Evolution


Scope & methodology


Scope & Methodology(I) Research questions

1.What are the training diary record mobile software applications freely available on the Internet by open-source manners ? 2.What feedback the users of those applications are providing on Internet pages associated to the each open-source project ?


Scope & Methodology(II) methodology

1.Empirical research, taking Internet as the research site, as in Hine (2008) … challenged by concept terminology2.Structured observation as descried by Martinko and Gardner (1985) and Mintzberg (1970).


The found open-source training diary mobile

software projects


The found … projects(I) By open-source repositories


The found … projects(II) hxmtracker

source: http://hxmtracker.garage.maemo.org/


The found … projects(III) ecoach

source: http://ecoach.garage.maemo.org


The found … projects(IV) mytracks

source: http://mytracks.appspot.com/features


The found … projects(V) tracker.py

source: http://code.google.com/p/tracker-py/


The found … projects(VI) dailyburn.com (4 androide)

source: http://code.google.com/p/dailyburndroid/


Open-source vs commercial


Open-source vs commercial(I) The e-coach case

GPX

XML


Open-source vs commercial(II) The suunto case


Findings and implications(I) The relevance of platforms


Findings and implications(II) The observed user feedback


Findings and implications(III) About the phenomenon

•Novel and growing•No previous literature addressing it•A tendency on specialization to different sports•Many existing open-source apps can be easily ported to mobile devices. •Everything built on top of Internet, connectivity and data standards. •Existing hardware lock mechanisms limiting the phenomenon potential.


Findings and implications(IV) … About the phenomenon

Users giving extremely positive feedbackUsers giving high amount of feature requests Challenges to commercial vendors

Commoditization Affects on margins Reconsideration of embed lock-in strategies


Future research

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Future research(I) Next steps

Survey the phenomena among students belonging to Turku University sports associations.

Survey a sample of users of the popular training long website: heiaheia.com

Benchmarking open-source versus commercial products

Target: Journal of Human Technology


End ?Questions ?Discussion ?

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