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J. Teixeira 23/07/11 @ROME.IT © Slide 1
IADIS ICT Society and Humans 2011
Jose Teixeira @TSERome, July 2011
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Open-source mobile software supporting athletes and sport enthusiasts
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The 'dilemma' of presenting preventive health research
Source: Lindström et al. 2010
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Outline
•Training diary records •Scope and methodology•The found open-source projects•Open-source vs commercial•Findings and implications•Future research
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Training diary records
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Training diary records(I) What ?
Log athlete's training details for posterior analysis
Better adaptation of training plans
Clinical and sports performance benefits
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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
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Training diary records(III) Evolution
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Scope & methodology
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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 ?
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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).
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The found open-source training diary mobile
software projects
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The found … projects(I) By open-source repositories
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The found … projects(II) hxmtracker
source: http://hxmtracker.garage.maemo.org/
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The found … projects(III) ecoach
source: http://ecoach.garage.maemo.org
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The found … projects(IV) mytracks
source: http://mytracks.appspot.com/features
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The found … projects(V) tracker.py
source: http://code.google.com/p/tracker-py/
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The found … projects(VI) dailyburn.com (4 androide)
source: http://code.google.com/p/dailyburndroid/
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Open-source vs commercial
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Open-source vs commercial(I) The e-coach case
GPX
XML
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Open-source vs commercial(II) The suunto case
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Findings and implications
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Findings and implications(I) The relevance of platforms
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Findings and implications(II) The observed user feedback
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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.
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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
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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
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End ?Questions ?Discussion ?