Designing the web-community for self-managed training of runners

Abstract

Running is an easy excise that can be carried out alone. If one commits to a community of running, s/he is able to acquire more positive effects from viewpoints of sustainability, skill polishing-up and motivation than alone. This study designs and develops a web-community, which offers community members an environment of self-management on running. They can set targets of running concretely based on individual purpose. For sake of achieving each target through the environment, the system proposes two important functions, which are configuration of a community and evaluation of running purpose, in addition to monitoring technologies. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.