A Pilot Study on Real-time Monitoring of Heart Rate and Movement Speed in Middle-distance Race of Physical Education Classes

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE) Volume 11 | Issue 1 Article 3 12-15-2018 A Pilot Study on Real-time Monitoring of Heart Rate and Movement Speed in Middle-distance Race of Physical Education Classes Daqing Zhu Tsinghua University, China Hubei University of Arts and Sciences, China, Xingui Zhang Tsinghua University, China, Lanying Fu Zhengzhou Shengda Economic and Trade Management College, Peiyong Wang Tsinghua University, China, Shaohong Zhai Xi’an Physical Education University, China, Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/jetde Part of the Instructional Media Design Commons, Online and Distance Education Commons, and the Other Education Commons Recommended Citation Zhu, Daqing; Zhang, Xingui; Fu, Lanying; Wang, Peiyong; and Zhai, Shaohong (2018) "A Pilot Study on Real-time Monitoring of Heart Rate and Movement Speed in Middle-distance Race of Physical Education Classes," Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE): Vol. 11 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. 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Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange, 11(1), 35-44 A Pilot Study on Real-time Monitoring of Heart Rate and Movement Speed in Middle-distance Race of Physical Education Classes Daqing Zhu Tsinghua University, Hubei University of Arts and Sciences Xingui Zhang Tsinghua University Lanying Fu Zhengzhou Shengda Economic and Trade Management College Peiyong Wang Tsinghua University Shaohong Zhai Xi’an Physical Education University Abstract: In Chinese universities, students need to participate in the middle-distance-race. Normally, female students are required to participate in the race of 800 meters, while male students are required to participate in the race of 1000 meters. However, it is difficult for teachers to grasp the real time information of students during the race. And there is a lack of timely communications between the teachers and students. Focusing on this issue, this study, with the use of POLAR heart rate sensor and other modern information technologies, expands the original function of the sensor to achieve a concurrent operation of detecting heart rates and automatically measuring the movement speed. The researchers have successfully designed a micro system to monitor the process of middle-distance race. Moreover, the study also engages in a preliminary experiment verification so as to provide object and effective reference and basis for the middle-distance race physical education teaching in universities. Keywords: Real-time Monitoring, Physical Education Teaching, Middle-distance Race, Exercise Heart Rate, Sensor, Movement Speed 1. Introduction To amend the situation in which a continuous decline occurring to the physical Volume 11, No. 1, April, 2018 health of students, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China and the State Sports General Administration of China together launched a program entitled “Sunshine Sports for Hundreds of Millions 35 Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange of Students” in 2007. In this context, the Sunshine Sports Middle-distance Running Program has started. This program is of profound significance to fully carry out the education policy made by the Communist Party of China, to promote an active engagement of college students in the exercise, and to improve their overall endurance quality and physical fitness and health. This program has embraced a gratifying achievement. But in the meanwhile, some issues have exposed. For example, injuries, even sudden deaths have frequently occurred in the middle-distance running physical education classes in the universities. In such classes, female students normally participate in the race of 800 meters, and male students usually join in the race of 1000 meters. The issues have aroused a deep concern. As a result, the public has started to pay attention to the monitoring of the running process, focusing on the scientific nature of exercise. Exercise load monitoring methods used in the professional trainings have gradually been applied in public sports and become popularized. The monitoring approaches are constantly enriched. And monitoring devices, such as wristbands and wrist monitors are steadily coming into the world (Yang et al., 2014; Ji et al., 2015; Jiang et al., 2015; Neurosky, 2018). However, these monitoring devices are applicable only to the self-monitoring of single individuals, and lack sufficient monitoring indicators. The circumstances in universities are far more complicated, as there are a large number of students participating in the middle-distance running physical education classes at the same time. Thus, these devices are incompetent to satisfy the demand of real-time monitoring on the mass students. In other words, the sports loading supervision system of the middledistance running physical classes has not yet been systematically established. 36 Starting from the perspective of cluster monitoring, this study employs the shortrange wireless transmission technology, which enables us to monitor the heart rates during exercise, as well as the speed and distance of motion. In addition, the relevant analysis of these indicators can be performed. Consequently, this study achieves the realtime detection of heart rate and motion speed, as well as the data transmission. Thereby, it resolves the problems related to real-time cluster monitoring for the vast number of runners. It can also provide an early warning for those who may get injured. 2. Composition of Exercise Heart Rate and Motion Speed Monitoring Equipment With a purpose to monitor the longdistance running in the athletic field at universities, a local area network has been equipped to the system. A synchronous monitoring on both the heart rate and motion speed during the long-distance running has also been designed and achieved base on the use of Polar heart rate sensor. Then, the realtime remote monitoring is realized through the wireless relay. This set of micro system is of strong practical value for the safety monitoring of the long-distance running process, the reasonable adjustment of the amount of exercise, and the control of exercise intensity. This system emphasizes on the scientific nature of exercise. 2.1. Characteristics of the Polar Heart Rate Sensor There are quite a number of companies engaged into the research on the heart rate acquisition in the process of movement, of which the Po (...truncated)