Design of a web-based health promotion system and its practical implementation for cycle ergometer exercise.

Health promotion is a very active topic in recent years. Most people want to exercise regularly, but there are various obstacles to keep staying motivated in their busy life today. In this paper, we propose a system design on a proven enterprise architecture that aims to support in constituting a comprehensive infrastructure for a wellness exercise environment. The design extends normal health promotion model to address cost-efficient and forward-looking for future health industry. Moreover, web-based technology has been widely adopted to implement a platform-nature solution in a heterogeneous computing environment based on the Internet. In particular, a Self-describing strategy for effectively developing and deploying exercise programs has been originally proposed and contrived. By applying the design to cycle ergometer exercise, we presented a practical exercise system realizing easy-to-use operation interfaces on a web browser. The web-based cycle ergometer exercise system was proved to be workable in our feasibility experiments.