Technological innovation in the monitoring physical activity

Abstract

Educational activities aimed at children and adolescents can contribute to making good choices for their health, and in adults, changing habits from negative to prohealth ones, aimed at improving health. However, the development of electronic technology has made it possible to use devices that check, monitor and motivate people to change their lifestyle. These are different types of applications installed in smartphones, tablets or computers that monitor the level of physical activity and the changes associated with its taking place in the body, eg changes in heart rate during exercise. The data shows that already over 30% of people using the Internet, also uses health applications in their everyday life and the use of such devices may contribute to improving the health condition of the society. The aim of the work is to present the possibilities of using technological innovations to monitor physical activity, intended for people of all ages, based on research available in the literature on the subject. The following research problem was formulated: do the available electronic devices monitoring the level of physical activity contribute to the change of the lifestyle elements of the examined people? The work uses a method of analysis and criticism of the literature consisting in a review of the literature and obtaining knowledge in a given field. It turned out that although there is already a long list of available health applications, research in this area is quite limited.