**4. "Exercise 333" health management mechanism**

Compared to the traditional medical care that people receive medical treatment after they feel ill, an effective health management program can provide prevention of illness in a more aggressive manner—prevention is better than cure. Especially for people working in present modern high-tech society under lots of pressures and lacking exercise, such a preventive health management becomes essential. According to the report conducted by a hospital in Taiwan (Cheng-Ching Hospital Medical Center, 2010), exercise-333 can effectively prevent cardiovascular diseases. The concept of "exercise-333" is quite simple; i.e., taking exercise 3 or more times a week, at least 30 minutes per time, raising heart rate to 130 per minute. The health management mechanism presented here, based on "exercise 333", can help to remind the user to develop such a healthy life style.

Fig. 25 depicts the exercise-333 health management GUIs on the smart phone. In the first GUI, the user can set up 3 weekdays as checking points and at each checking point it will show the progress status to remind the user. In the second GUI, at the end of each day it will show the user whether his/her heart rate has ever been over 130 for more than 30 minutes. And at the end of each week, this GUI also shows the condition whether the user has accomplished exercise-333. With these two smart-phone GUIs, the user can constantly receive reminders and check his/her exercise status.

Based on the fact that in Taiwan every 100 people have 108 cellular phone numbers (Y.S. Lin, 2008), the high popularity of smart phone makes the presented health

Fig. 24. Indices for activity estimation

the user to develop such a healthy life style.

receive reminders and check his/her exercise status.

**4. "Exercise 333" health management mechanism** 

Compared to the traditional medical care that people receive medical treatment after they feel ill, an effective health management program can provide prevention of illness in a more aggressive manner—prevention is better than cure. Especially for people working in present modern high-tech society under lots of pressures and lacking exercise, such a preventive health management becomes essential. According to the report conducted by a hospital in Taiwan (Cheng-Ching Hospital Medical Center, 2010), exercise-333 can effectively prevent cardiovascular diseases. The concept of "exercise-333" is quite simple; i.e., taking exercise 3 or more times a week, at least 30 minutes per time, raising heart rate to 130 per minute. The health management mechanism presented here, based on "exercise 333", can help to remind

Fig. 25 depicts the exercise-333 health management GUIs on the smart phone. In the first GUI, the user can set up 3 weekdays as checking points and at each checking point it will show the progress status to remind the user. In the second GUI, at the end of each day it will show the user whether his/her heart rate has ever been over 130 for more than 30 minutes. And at the end of each week, this GUI also shows the condition whether the user has accomplished exercise-333. With these two smart-phone GUIs, the user can constantly

Based on the fact that in Taiwan every 100 people have 108 cellular phone numbers (Y.S. Lin, 2008), the high popularity of smart phone makes the presented health management system effective and convenient to help people on developing a healthy life style.

Fig. 25. Exercise-333 health management GUIs
