I'm building a physical therapy app and as part of it, I want the app to oversee and measure certain exercises that the user will do. I'm not sure if I should use Core Motion, location services, or something else.
These are the specific things we want to measure:
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The user walks for 6 minutes. At the end of it, we tell them how far they walked.
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The user runs for 30 seconds. We tell them their average speed and peak speed.
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The user does a broad jump: basically just jumping forward as far as they can. We want to measure the distance jumped.
I'm thinking location services might work for #1 but I doubt it will be accurate enough for #2.
For #3 I thought I could do this with the accelerometer if I took readings at short intervals and combined them with something like the trapezoidal rule, but I can't get this to produce a reliable result.
Let me know what you think, thanks.
