E-walknavi: Walk Route Navigation System For Fitness Walkers Using Calorie Consumption Prediction

In this paper, we propose a novel walking route navigation system for fitness walkers effective for health maintenance. Recently, lifestyle-related disease has been increasing in the world. It is important for people to keep balance between the calorie intake and the calorie consumption. We focus on calorie consumption by walking, because walking is on effective exercise for maintaining and promoting healthy life. It is necessary to select a walking route, appropriate for calorie consumption. Our system described in this paper, called E-walknavi, can dynamically navigate an effective route in real time when a user is walking. To realize this novel navigation function, a method of dynamically predicting calorie consumption is also described in this paper. Our system helps a fitness walker prevent lifestyle-related diseases. Some evaluation results are described in the paper.