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|Authors:||Olavi Karjalainen: University of Oulu and Polar
Electro Oy, Finland| |Publication title:||The Heart Rate Monitor
at School| |Conference:||PATT 1996. Proceedings from the
conference "Pupils Attitude Towards Technology"| |Publication
type:||Abstract and Fulltext| |Abstract:||The purpose of the
research project presented here is to describe how the wireless
heart rate monitor was introduced in the Training School of the
Department of Teacher Education at Oulu university, and how the
data given by the monitor was utilised in many other subjects as
well. The project had its origins in the co-operation between a
firm which manufactures heart rate monitors (Polar Electro) and
the Department of Teacher Education. A group of experts was
selected as a co-operative team, with representatives of the
above-mentioned firm, university researchers, primary and
secondary school teachers, and students of pedagogy. The goal
was to get acquainted with the li