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Runners' experience of implicit coaching through music
In this paper we evaluate a music-based coaching system for runners, the
SportsCoach. It measures the runner’s heart rate and increases music tempo when,
for an optimal workout, the runner should speed up. Coaching is implicit, since
the runner only needs to keep in sync with the music and no explicit instructions
are given. We performed 2 experiments to evaluate how this implicit coaching was
experienced in the actual context of running. The first experiment investigated how
natural it is to keep running in sync with the music when the music tempo changes.
We find that although runners are not naturally inclined to do so, a band of 10%
below one’s natural tempo is mostly easily followed, especially by dancers. The
second experiment evaluated the SportsCoach and contrasted its implicit form of
coaching and synchronized music to explicit and absent forms of coaching and fixed
tempo music. We find that the SportCoach concept scores well on most aspects,
especially because of the synchronicity of music and running tempos