A mobile application for orienteering events in physical education subjects

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Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.
Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo
Fonseca, Eduardo
Machás, Luis
Dias, Arnaldo

IATED Academy

METRÔLHO, J. [et al.] (2019) - A mobile application for orienteering events in physical education subjects. In Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 12, Sevilha, 13 de Novembro - ICERI2019 Proceedings. IATED Academy. p. 8597-8605. ISBN 978-84-09-14755-7

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A mobile application for orienteering events in physical education subjects

Android
Technology in teaching
Physical education
Mobile application
Orienteering sport

2020-01-09T12:20:39Z
2020-01-09T12:20:39Z
2019-11-13

Physical education in schools aims to promote physical activity, socialisation, and interaction among students. Today, it is considered a very important subject for development and health. It encompasses several sports modalities, always with the purpose of promoting physical activity and motor development of those who practice. Orienteering is one of the modalities that has recently gained fame. Orienteering is a sport modality that integrates physical, cognitive, and emotional dimensions. It consists, as the name implies, of navigating to a certain area, using a map and a compass, aiming for the shortest possible route between several points marked on a map. The work described in this paper presents a case of the introduction of new digital technologies in this modality to simplify the administration of these events in a school environment and to promote interest in the practice of this sport modality. The web application that allows the creation and addition of the orienteering event, the visualisation of detailed information in an after-event context, and the registration and management of new organisers or orienteers will be presented throughout the paper. It also presents the mobile application that allows the organisers to start and finish events, manage orienteers of a given event, view the current position of orienteers, and view the results of past events. The mobile application presents a static orienteering map to the orienteer. The visit of the orienteer to each control point (assigned on the orienteering map by the organisers) is verified using the georeferencing features of the device. These tools facilitate the management of these events by organisers as well as their analyses through automatically generated information. It also makes the practice of this modality more appealing to students because it introduces a type of gamification. Moreover, it also benefits from being paperless because it makes it unnecessary to print maps for the execution of an event and because the administration of an event can be done without the need to mark the control points in the terrain.
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