Development of an Online Marathon System using Acoustic AR

摘要

In recent years, the number of people who run for the purpose of improving their health and physical fitness has been increasing, but it is not easy to continue running. Therefore, we believe that it is very important to develop a running support system. In our previous study, we developed a running support system and an application that enables users to run with a virtual runner created by using their past running data in an acoustic augmented reality space. However, this system has the problem that it can only race against the past running records of oneself or one's acquaintance, and can only race against a single running record. Therefore, we considered it necessary to develop a system that allows users to race against an unspecified number of users and that allows users to arbitrarily select the distance and number of times they wish to race. In this paper, we propose an online marathon system that enables large-scale online races and examine the effect of the number of competitors on user motivation.