TY - GEN
T1 - Comparision and analysis of top 10 exercise android Apps in mainland China
AU - Wang, Yanling
AU - Sun, Liu
AU - Xu, Yahong
AU - Xiao, Qian
AU - Chang, Polun
AU - Wu, Ying
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IMIA and IOS Press.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Medical guidelines highly recommend physical activity and aerobic exercise in the prevention of primary and secondary cardiovascular disease. The use of exercise-promoting application software may improve clinical outcomes for cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients. The study aimed to compare and analyze the functions of the top 10 exercise Android Apps which had more than 1,000,000 downloads from the main four Android App stores in mainland China. The results showed that most of these popular apps had pedometer, exercise plan preset, user data presentation, user encouragement and community sharing functions while a few of them had exercise video clips or animation support and wearable devices. Given these data, the conclusion is that these popular apps fulfill some of the functions recommended by medical guidelines, however, lack of some functions such as pre-exercise risk assessment, the exercise intensity recording, specific instructions by professionals, and monitoring functions for CVD patients.
AB - Medical guidelines highly recommend physical activity and aerobic exercise in the prevention of primary and secondary cardiovascular disease. The use of exercise-promoting application software may improve clinical outcomes for cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients. The study aimed to compare and analyze the functions of the top 10 exercise Android Apps which had more than 1,000,000 downloads from the main four Android App stores in mainland China. The results showed that most of these popular apps had pedometer, exercise plan preset, user data presentation, user encouragement and community sharing functions while a few of them had exercise video clips or animation support and wearable devices. Given these data, the conclusion is that these popular apps fulfill some of the functions recommended by medical guidelines, however, lack of some functions such as pre-exercise risk assessment, the exercise intensity recording, specific instructions by professionals, and monitoring functions for CVD patients.
KW - Android
KW - App
KW - CVD
KW - Exercise
KW - Health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84952054732&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-1024
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-1024
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 26262324
AN - SCOPUS:84952054732
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 1024
BT - MEDINFO 2015
A2 - Georgiou, Andrew
A2 - Sarkar, Indra Neil
A2 - de Azevedo Marques, Paulo Mazzoncini
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015
Y2 - 19 August 2015 through 23 August 2015
ER -
