Physical Fitness Testing Mobile Application for Vertical Jump
Keywords:
Physical Fitness Testing, Vertical Jump, Inertial Measurement Unit Sensor, Application, SmartphoneAbstract
The objective of this study is to develop a mobile application for assessing vertical jump performance utilising Android mobile devices. The study examines every phase of the software development life cycle, encompassing the principles and methods used from problem identification to maintenance. The issue with the conventional equipment utilised for evaluating physical performance in sports like running, speed acceleration, and change of direction is that it is cumbersome and costly. Nowadays, mobile phones are equipped with inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors capable of transmitting velocity and acceleration data. Users necessitate a compact and cost-effective instrument for quantifying vertical jump performance. To analyse and create a system utilising Unified Modelling Language (UML) for the development of a mobile application that quantifies vertical jump performance by utilising y-axis acceleration inputs from IMU sensors in mobile devices. The study constructs a programmatic interface (API) utilising android studio and Java to oversee data from the acceleration sensors and compute the vertical jump's height based on the gathered data. The findings suggest that the mobile application effectively measures the height of a vertical jump using a mobile device and provides an assessment of the user's physical fitness level based on their judgements. The application has received an impressive average satisfaction score of 4.67. Users reported a high level of satisfaction regarding the convenience of utilizing mobile devices, with an average rating of 4.76. The recommendation for the future study is to compare the evaluated physical fitness level obtained through this mobile application with the conventional equipment.
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