Exercise Recommendation

Key Idea

We consider the problem of long-term healthy and happy living assisted by technology. Specifically, we explore how to use Explainable AI and Ubiquitous Computing for better, personalized health with Yoga learning, practice, performance and environment monitoring, and group recommendation, for long-term exercise adherence.

Quick Start

1. Our Surya Namaskar (SN) explorer tool, SN-YE, pronounced "sun-yee", is intended for a beginner to tell about SN, variants, breathing, utterances/ mantras, etc. powered by an SN ontology (SN-YO). Please try SN-YE and provide feedback on the form. [SN-YE Tool] [SN-YO Ontology] [Survey Form] [Paper]
2. Read our paper(2025) on overall idea of personalized SN with technology, and an initial prototype of metadata management, sensor data collection, analysis and platform.
3. Return to the broader Trustworthy Group Recommendation page for team formation and fairness-focused group recommendation work.

Conceptual Overview - SN Personalization

Key Contacts: Hari P Gupta, Biplav Srivastava

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that comprehensively examines decision support issues around Yoga personalization, from pose sensing to recommendation of corrections for a complete regimen, and illustrates with a case study of Surya Namaskar (SN) - a set of 12 choreographed poses.

Representative Publications

• [2025] Technology-assisted Personalized Yoga for Better Health -- Challenges and Outlook
  Vivek Kumar, Himanshu Sahu, Hari Prabhat Gupta, Biplav Srivastava
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Modeling for SN

Key Contacts: Mansi Dodiya, Bharath C Muppasani, Hari P Gupta, Biplav Srivastava

The SN Yoga ontology (SN-YO) models Surya Namaskar as asanas, numbered pose occurrences, and sequence variants. It also includes a pose correction layer for the SN-variant followed at IIT BHU (our baseline). This layer models body parts, breathing patterns, safety notes, pose errors, and correction instructions. With information in multiple languages, any user application, like the SN-YE tool, can retrieve SN information in English or other supported languages (currently, Hindi and Telugu).

Representative Publications

• [2026] SN-YO: An Ontology for Modeling Surya Namaskar as a Sequence-Based Yoga Practice
  Mansi Dodiya, Kishan Kumar, Bharath Chandra Muppasani, Biplav Srivastava, Raghava Mutharaju, Hari Prabhat Gupta
  [Paper]
  

Funding

This work has been possible due to a VAIBHAV Fellowship (2025-2028; 17 proposals from among 216 selected globally) for summer visit and collaboration with IIT-BHU. This is in additon to support for group recommendation work from USC and SCRA.