Swan boat: pervasive social game to enhance treadmill running

We designed and implemented a pervasive game called Swan Boat that targets the bland and tedious nature of running on a treadmill, making it fun through social interaction and immersive game play. We developed Swan Boat on top of PSD, a platform for pervasive games, and using the Interactive Treadmill hardware. We conducted a user study to evaluate our game. Keywords Pervasive games, Fitness games, Interactive Treadmill, SensorBracelet, PSD, Swan Boat

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MM
• Authors: Miru Ahn, Sungwon Peter Choe, Sungjun Kwon, Byunglim Park, Taiwoo Park, Sooho Cho, Jaesang Park, Yunseok Rhee, Junehwa Song
• Keywords: Interactive Treadmill, MM 2009, Multimedia, Pervasive Games, Swan Boat