FAQ

The CuraSwing app records acceleration while walking and maps it to a complex music library. This creates a dynamic interaction between music intensity and movement behaviour, essentially a musical biofeedback. Larger movements while walking are rewarded with different musical components. These include more instruments, volume, more complex musical patterns and more. This creates dynamic musical feedback while walking, which nevertheless combines to form aesthetically pleasing music. Put simply, CuraSwing turns your movement into a new piece of music!

AirPods Pro earphones may experience problems in the app CuraSwing with music playback. The sound may be noisy and distorted. This is due to an audio setting by Apple in these earphones. Please try a different pair of earphones or headphones!

For an annual fee of €10, you can access the Pro version of CuraSwing. This includes an additional music set (Modern), a training evaluation and motivational messages. For the training evaluation, a baseline measurement is taken at the beginning. You walk at your usual pace for 30 seconds. This value is then used to assess your training progress. A clear graph shows you the average swing results of your training sessions. Here you can track how your arm swing behaviour and thus your walking function develops, even over longer periods of time. These values can be sent by email (e.g. to your doctor) via a report button. Your swing values are permanently stored on your smartphone, even if you do not have an active subscription. You can also set yourself a personal weekly goal (e.g. 3 times a week). After your training session, you will be informed whether you have already achieved your goal.

For CuraSwing's musical swing feedback, it is important that the smartphone is attached to your wrist while walking. This is the only way to receive motivating and appropriate musical feedback from the app while walking. However, you can also turn off the feedback. When using CuraSwing in no-feedback mode, it does not matter whether the smartphone is attached to your arm or not. However, a different position of the smartphone (e.g. in your trouser pocket) will also change the subsequent evaluation of your swing behaviour. If you want a meaningful evaluation, you should always attach your smartphone in the same place, ideally to your wrist.

In the main view, swing feedback can be turned on and off in the CuraSwing app. When feedback is turned on, the music reacts to your movement. The accelerometers in your smartphone detect your swing movement. The stronger the swing, the more musical components are played. When feedback is turned off, CuraSwing generates stimulating music to support your walking training. This no-feedback mode is suitable for anyone who primarily wants to train their steps, endurance or walking speed.

Die App CuraSwing speichert Deine Schwungdaten fortwährend auf Deinem Smartphone. Dies passiert auch, wenn Du nicht unsere Pro-version abonniert hast. Sobald Du das Abo aktivierst hast Du Zugriff auf alle mit Deinem Nutzer verknüpften Schwungdaten.

Activate “Automatic updates” for your app store. For the Google Play Store, go to Profile at the top right of the Play Store app, then to Settings, then to Network settings. For the Apple App Store, you can set “Automatic app update” under General settings (gear wheel), sub-item App Store.

In the Pro version of the CuraSwing app, you can view your swing results after training under ‘Evaluation’ for a small annual fee. A baseline measurement is taken at the beginning of the training evaluation. You walk at your usual pace for 30 seconds. This value is then used to assess your training progress. A clear graph shows you the average swing results of your training sessions. Here you can track how your arm swing behaviour and thus your walking function develops, even over longer periods of time. These values can be sent by email (e.g. to your doctor) via a report button. Incidentally, the swing values are permanently stored on your smartphone, even if you do not have an active subscription. As soon as you activate a subscription, all swing values are visible in CuraSwing.

In principle, you can also use the CuraSwing app on your leg instead of your arm. However, our algorithm is currently designed for arm swings. Therefore, you will not receive consistent, plausible music feedback on your leg at this time.

No, unfortunately that is not possible. Our music consists of individual snippets of music for different components (melody, harmony, snare, bass ...). Music must therefore be composed specifically for CuraSwing and fitted into the app.

For optimum music feedback, the smartphone should be attached directly to the wrist. The higher the smartphone sits on your arm, the less the algorithm reacts to the swing of your arm. Therefore, make sure that the case is suitable for the wrist when purchasing.

For optimum music feedback, the smartphone should be attached as close as possible to the wrist. Most commercially available bags are upper arm bags. These often do not attach well to the wrist. Simply because the upper arm is significantly wider. Therefore, make sure that the bag is suitable for the wrist when purchasing it.

No, but the movement experience with the CuraSwing app improves if you walk at roughly the same tempo as the music. The music feedback for the arm swing is also designed for this tempo. If you walk much slower or faster, the music will sound less full. In addition, the rhythm of the music has a positive effect on your movement when it is roughly linked to the tempo of the music.

If you swing with too much force, you may lose your rhythm when walking with the CuraSwing app. This is usually because you walk more slowly when you exert more effort with your arm. Try swinging your arm less vigorously for a while. Your body will automatically adjust to the rhythm of the music again. Then carefully force the arm swing again.

The walking speed should be set as high as possible in the CuraSwing app. This will maximise the training effect. But safety comes first! You should always feel safe and stable during training. Basically, the step frequency depends on the length of your legs. The longer your legs, the slower (and larger) your steps. Therefore, the arm swing frequency is generally higher for people of smaller stature.

Yes, the CuraSwing algorithm works with the smartphone's acceleration sensors. Faster walking speeds also increase the speed of your arm swing. This means that if you select faster music, you should also swing your arm faster to trigger the music.

Occasionally, the CuraSwing app may experience a faulty connection with the Bluetooth headphones. This causes the music to sound muffled and distorted. Close the app completely and restart the CuraSwing app.

No, the CuraSwing app's algorithm responds exclusively to acceleration. The backswing and follow-through are treated equally and translated into music.