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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Designing games to motivate physical activity
Engagement with computer games causes children and adolescent users to spend a substantial amount of time at sedentary game playing activity. We hypothesise that this engagement c...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Dipak Bhandari, Stephen Kimani, ...
TEI
2010
ACM
201views Hardware» more  TEI 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Objects in play: virtual environments and tactile learning
When creating technology environments for children, consideration needs to be given to how touch, gesture, and physical interactions impact on play and learning. This is particula...
Lillian Spina-Caza
VR
2010
IEEE
151views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Astrojumper: Designing a virtual reality exergame to motivate children with autism to exercise
Children with autism show substantial benefits from rigorous physical activity, however it is often difficult to motivate these individuals to exercise due to their usually sede...
Samantha L. Finkelstein, Andrea Nickel, Tiffany Ba...
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Walk 2 Win: towards designing a mobile game for elderly's social engagement
In this paper we describe a user-centered approach to designing and evaluating a socially interactive mobile game for the elderly. The objective of the game is to encourage the el...
Omar Mubin, Suleman Shahid, Abdullah Al Mahmud
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
CHI-ball, an interactive device assisting martial arts education for children
In this paper, we discuss the output of a student project about the design of a physically interactive system to assist the education of martial arts to children. The conceptual s...
Markus Heberlein, Hayashi Takafumi, Nashold Sarah,...