Flappy Breath: A Smartphone-Based Breath Exergame

Clinical studies has shown that patients with breathing disorders can have a better standard of living through breathing exercises. To this end, this paper presents an interactive game, Flappy Breath, in which users can learn and practice breathing exercises in a gamified manner. The game is meant to be not only beneficial to users health, but also enjoyable to play and easy to understand. The testing application is a Flappy Bird like game developed for the Android OS. The User inhales and exhales in order to dodge obstacles. This application is targeted on making lung rehabilitation exercises accessible to anyone with an Android device, providing patient breathing data, and a simple interface for exercising. Throughout the applications lifetime, inhaling and exhaling data is saved and can be used to construct a model of the patients breathing cycle. Therefore, the application could provide vital information to aid in patient breathing exercises and lung health.