Adding and Expert System to a Fitness Tracking Website

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Adding and Expert System to a Fitness Tracking
Website

• Steven Arnold
• CS 476
• May 5, 2003

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Overview

• Introduction to the original project
• Why add an expert system?
• Goals of the system
• Work completed
• Future Work
• Conclusion

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Introduction to the original project

• For CS 426 - Senior Projects
• A website that tracks a users exercise progress
• Allows the user to enter workouts, printout
  projected workouts to take with them, track
  measurement, etc
• Currently the user must create their own workout,
  even if they have no idea how to

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Why add an expert system?

• Expert system to build a workout for a user.
• A user has a better chance of hurting themselves,
  and less of a chance doing something useful in
  the gym.
• This expert system would create a workout for
  them, based on questions they answer and their
  goals.

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Goals of the project

• Take questions answered here

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Goals of the project

• And turn them into

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Goals of the Project

• This will be accomplished by taking the answers
  to the questions, determining the user level and
  goal.
• From there running multiple rules per body part
  (chest, legs, arms etc.) will produce the final
  workout.
• Doing all this in a web based language (ASP.NET
  with C

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Work Completed

• Database tables and display mechanisms already in
  place
• Code that takes questions and determines level,
  time, etc. is complete
• Working on building the forward chaining system
• Working on rules that run the system

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Future Work

• This a basic system, want to add more robust
  rules system, making it a true expert system
• Once nutrition tracking is added, adding an
  expert system for helping users with their
  nutrition.

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Conclusion

• Users of the web site might not be familiar with
  workout, I want to give them options
• Adding an expert system that uses the level of
  the user will prevent injury and lessen
  frustration of people new to working out.
• Allows me to use a new language and implement
  fascinating artificial intelligence techniques.