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The Analysis of Present Status and Residents' Design Preference on a Fitness Center in Apartment Complex (공동주택 부속 휘트니스센터의 이용현황 및 디자인 선호도 분석)

  • Kang, Jae-Woo;Choi, Jung-Min
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.346-351
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    • 2006
  • Community facilities in apartment complex was developed through combination with residents' needs about housing environmental amenity, marketing competition among construction companies and social trend 'Well-being' . But community facilities and fitness center which are situated in the beginning are alienated by residents because the designers plan community facilities without considering about residents' life-style and preference. In this paper, the study includes present status of fitness center and residents' preference for proper fitness center design. The result presents that fitness center users in apartment complex want a resting space which is already located in fitness center of mixed-use residential building. A resting space provides conditions that users can make up with the community each other as well as they can rest after exercise. And the fitness center users prefer wood as interior finish material of floor and wall in exercising space and resting space because they have a feeling comfortable and splendid.

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The Analysis of Present Status and Residents' Design Preference on a Fitness Center in Apartment Complex - Focused on the Resting Space of Fitness Center - (공동주택 부속 휘트니스센터의 이용현황 및 디자인 선호도 분석 - 휴게공간을 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Jung-Min
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.16 no.1 s.60
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 2007
  • Community facilities in apartment complex have been developed through residents' needs for housing environmental amenities and social trend for 'Well-being' combined with marketing competition among construction companies. But community facilities and fitness centers which are in the initial stage of development are not well fit with residents' needs because the designers plan the community facilities without considering on residents' life-style and preference. This study investigates the present status of fitness center, and surveys the residents' preference for the proposed fitness center design. The result includes that fitness center users in apartment complex want a convenient and comfortable resting spaces similar level with those in fitness center of mixed-use residential building. A resting space provides opportunity that community members meet each other as well as they can rest after exercise. The result also shows that the fitness center users prefer wood floor and wall as interior finishing materials in exercising space and resting space, which users think, gives more comfortable and splendid feeling.

Recognition of Emotional lighting according to the Types of exercise participation of Fitness center users: Convergence approach of exercise and emotional lighting (피트니스 센터 이용자의 운동참여유형에 따른 감성조명의 인식: 운동과 감성조명의 융합적 접근)

  • Cho, Gunsang;Yi, Eunsurk;Jin, Sangeun
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.12
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    • pp.381-391
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    • 2018
  • The goal of current study was to investigate the perception of emotional lighting according to the types of exercise participation of fitness center users. The subjects of this study were 292 people in Gyeongin area fitness center. As a survey tool, the color types used in the study of Oh & Kwak(2015) were used, and the color recognition was based on the emotional adjective scale used in Lee(1997). Data were analyzed using crossover, independent t-test and one-way ANOVA using SPSS23.0. The following conclusions can be drawn from the results of this study. First, emotional lighting color preference of fitness users varies according to Gender. Second, the difference of perception of color by emotional illumination of fitness users was found to be partially different in color and sex. Third, there was a difference in color recognition among emotional lighting color recognition according to exercise participation type of fitness users.

Mobile exercise monitoring for personalized exercise prescription (맞춤형 운동처방을 위한 모바일 운동 모니터링)

  • Kang, Sunyoung;Kang, Seungae
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2015
  • This study was carried out the exercise monitoring utilizing mobile device which is easily accessible and personalized exercise prescription based on it. For this, a variety of exercise monitoring and status of those were investigated and suggested the potential of personalized exercise prescription. If individual users send their body and vital informations using a mobile device, all informations are collected in u-Fitness center. After then exercise expert provide a customized prescription based on the collected information and feed data into database of u-Fitness center. System of U-Fitness center will provide the best personalized exercise prescription by automatically connecting to the content providers. In the future, a variety of mobile devices and services will work together and it can be evolved as an open platform that can be used for multiple services according to the needs of individual users on a single platform.

A Study of the Occurrences of Musculoskeletal Related Pain Sufferers Among Fitness Center Users (운동센터 이용자의 근골격계 관련 통증 발생 실태)

  • Kim, Suhn-Yeop;Yang, Joung-Oak
    • Physical Therapy Korea
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.92-101
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics and the current condition of musculoskeletal pain sufferers among fitness center users. The investigation used self-reporting questionnaire with the 797 subjects. On average, the subjects were 30.6 years old, 168.8 cm in height and 65.2 kg in weight. Among them, 423 were male (53.1%) and 374 were female (46.9%). Out of them, 276 suffered from pain, (35.2%). More men felt muscle aches than women (p<.05). In terms of pain, lower back area topped the list with 44.9%, followed by the lower extremities (30.1%), the neck (17.8%) and the upper part of the body (17.8%). Dieters suffered the most from pain (86.2%) while those exercising to build strength suffered the least with 26.8%. There was a significant relationship between the purpose for exercising and the amount of pain suffered (p<.05). By kind of exercise, pain stroke aerobic exercisers disproportionately with 42.4% while it almost steered clear of exercisers for strengthening with 26.9%. There was significant relationship between the kind of exercise and pain suffered (p<.05). The type of suffering differed by body shape. A significantly higher number of overweight people experienced pain than underweight people (p<.05). 32.8% of pain sufferers commented that the pain affects their workout, and on this issue there was no gender difference (p>.05). The pain caused more difficulties in doing activities of daily living for overweight or obese peoples than underweight peoples (p<.05). More than a third of health club and fitness center users are experiencing musculoskeletal pains. Measures such as professional training or information provision is required to prevent injury or disorder caused by improper exercise.

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Personal Training Suggestion System based on Hybrid App (하이브리드 앱 기반의 개인 트레이닝 추천 시스템)

  • Kye, Min-Seok;Jang, Hyeon-Suk;Jung, Hoe-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.1475-1480
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    • 2014
  • Wellness is IT fused with the user manage and maintain the health of a service can help you. If you are using an existing Fitness Center to yourself by choosing appliances that fit with the risk of injury in order to learn how the efficient movement had existed for a long time was needed. To resolve, use the personal training but more expensive cost of people's problems, and shown again in the habit of exercising alone will have difficulty. This paper provides a variety of smart phones based on a hybrid app with compatibility with the platform and personalized training market system. Users of the Fitness Center is built into smart phones in the history of their movement sensors or transmits to the Web by typing directly. This is based on exercise programs tailored to users via the training market. Personal training marketplace has a variety of users, check the history of this movement he can recommend an exercise program for themselves can be applied by selecting the. This provides users with the right exercise program can do long-term exercise habits can be proactive and goal setting.

Space Usage and User Needs of Postpartum Care Centers (산후관리시설의 사용실태 및 사용자 요구에 관한 연구)

  • Son Yeo-Rym;Hwang Yeon-Sook
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.14 no.5 s.52
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2005
  • This study examined the current space usage of postpartum care center and postpartum mother's assessment of postpartum care center. This study was conducted questionnaire web survey. 220 women who used postpartum care center were surveyed. The data were analyzed by using SPSS Program for Win 12.0. Frequency, percentage, mean were used. The major findings were as follows: The postpartum care center was consisted of 5 areas such as living area, sanitary area, public area, service area and administration area. Living and public area were mainly occupied, but service area was insufficient. The users showed high satisfaction with mother room, and low satisfaction with nursing room and shower room. The users complained of size of mother room, collaboration with others in shower room and toilet. The users wanted guest meeting room for users' privacy of living room. The users wanted service area such as massage room, fitness room, physical care roon.

Design of Custom Training System for Fitness Club Based on NFC (NFC기반 피트니스센터 맞춤 트레이닝 시스템 설계)

  • Lee, Hyun-Suk;Park, Seok--Cheon
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2017
  • According to Gartner, the size of the global health care industry in 2020 is expected to reach $ 850 billion, which is 15 percent of the total IoT market. The health care market is growing a lot lately, and many people are looking for a fitness center to build a healthy body. Sometimes, they exercise the wrong way by exercising exercise in the wrong way. Even though it is recommended to use the exercise, it is problematic to know how to use it or not to use it. It is becoming a problem. This paper designed the NFC fitness center customized for the fitness center that users use to improve the previously presented problem.

A Study on the Data Sharing Mechanism Design in Android-Based Fitness System (안드로이드 기반 휘트니스 시스템에서의 데이터 공유 메커니즘 설계)

  • Kang, Hee-beom;Jang, Jae-myung;Lee, Jong-won;Jung, Hoe-kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.614-616
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    • 2015
  • Current U-Healthcare has become specialized in Wellness center in the prevention of future health care concept of a health center, treatment. Wellness is the development of which has been emerging field of fitness system to evolve along with the key areas of U-Healthcare. Traditional Fitness system, one between the trainer and the user: 1. Consultation was only possible, the number of trainers are limited, this problem can be reduced individual coaching time existed as more number of users who can receive coaching at certain times of the day. In this paper, we design a mechanism that allows management by grouping field value of a DB table in the user's BMI(Body Mass Index) index and fitness trainer system to efficiently coaching a plurality of users similar BMI index.

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Effects of Exercise Prescription Service and Participation Level on Satisfaction and Reuse Intention of Fitness Center Users (피트니스센터 이용자들의 운동처방환경서비스와 참가정도가 이용만족도 및 재이용의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Hye-Min;Yang, Jung-Su;Lee, Sang-Duk;Yoo, Shin-Hwan
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.217-228
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    • 2019
  • This study was designed to investigate the effect of exercise prescription service on user satisfaction and reuse intention of fitness center users in C region, Gangwon-do. The subjects of this study were 250 fitness center users aged 20 and over. Survey was conducted to examine users satisfaction and reuse intention. The final analysis data is 227 copies and the results are as follows. First, there was a significant difference in sex at the facility of satisfaction of use(t=2.308, p=.022). The marriage showed a significant difference in the price among user satisfaction(t=2.490, p=.014) and reuse intention(t=-1.968, p=.05). Age showed significant differences in the duration of participation(F=7.117, p=.000), frequency (F=6.171, p=.000), and intensity(F=2.791, p=.027). User satisfaction showed significant differences according to price(F=6.171, p=.000), leader(F=3.083, p=.017) and reuse intention(F=2.699, p=.032). There was a significant difference in education groups in terms of duration of participation(F=3.656, p=.007) and frequency(F=3.164, p=.015). leader(F=5.170, p=.001) and price(F=2.899, p=.023) were different in user satisfaction. Jobs showed a significant difference in the duration of participation(F=4.685, p=.000), intensity(F=2.373, p=.023) and reuse intention(F=4.840, p=.000). Monthly income showed a significant difference in user satisfaction(F=4.651, p=.001) and facility(F=2.606, p=.037). Second, there was a significant difference in the duration of participation according to presence or absence of exercise prescription service(t=-4.410, p=.000). There was also significant differences in the user satisfaction(t=-7.951, p=.000), leader(t=5.304, p=.000), facility(t=2.033, p=.043) and reuse intention(t=4.640, p=.000) in terms of the presence of exercise prescription service. Third, in the relation between exercise prescription service and the participation level, there was a significant effect of the leader(β=.221, p=.001) and the price(β=.135, p=.045) of user satisfaction, and the reuse intention(β=.182, p=.007). Fourth, among the user satisfaction influenced by exercise prescription service, facilities(β=.178, p=.005) and leader(β=.497, p=.000) were found to affect reuse intention.