Volume 7
Volume 7, Number 41 |
May 22, 2009 |
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David Valentine
Pamela Arnhold
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Abstract: We describe an Expert System designed and implemented to teach undergraduates in an Adapted Physical Activity program how to design a safe and appropriate exercise regimen for people with physical and mental disabilities. The project is an interdisciplinary cooperation between Adapted Physical Activity and Information Systems faculty, funded by a Faculty Development Grant from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). The system consists of a Visual Basic front end that collects and verifies some 130 data items on the client and then sends that data on to an industrial expert system shell (XpertRule Knowledge Builder) that produces a safe, conservative exercise program. Students then compare the results of the expert system with the regimen they designed manually. Generally students find the computer system to be more complete and slightly more conservative than they were. Thus students providing health-enriching exercise programs obtain valuable experience in how IS systems, especially expert systems, can be adapted to their field. The system uses fuzzy logic/fuzzy reasoning and has been verified over four semesters of the course.
Keywords: Expert Systems, Health Care IS Education, VB.NET, XML
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Recommended Citation: Valentine and Arnhold (2009). A Pedagogical Expert System for Adapted and Therapeutic Exercise: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Information Systems Education Journal, 7 (41). http://isedj.org/7/41/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2007: §3113. ISSN: 1542-7382.)