FAQ were approached by The Auckland University of Technology to develop a native App to support their Pau Te Hau project. Pau Te Hau utilises the science of HIIT,TABATA style workouts to improve students’ health, fitness, wellbeing and academic performance, using short but effective exercise sessions.

The program required a variety of pre-designed workouts, including a multitude of gymnasium and sport related exercises (which could be done in-or-outdoors), and displayed as videos for clear instructional purposes.

FAQ worked closely with AUT to scope, plan and develop the app for the iOS based iPad platform. The instructer/teacher would be able to join users and monitor a group session. Once a user, typically a school student, pre determined and added to the session/class list, they were able to partake in a Pau Te Hau session.

During the session, a monitoring (polarH10) device records their heart rate in real time and reports that back to the tablet device, showing their average, current and peek heart rates and dynamically allocates their position within the class, (i.e. who has the highest average peek heart rate). A student is considered to be meeting expectations would be noted if they are above a certain percentage (ie: 85%), and are given a visual rewards (flames) in real time.

After the session is completed, the user is emailed a report of their session, and when they create their own account, they will already have all of their history retained, assuming they have used the same email address for each of their workouts and also for their new account.