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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 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, ...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises) and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Mac Coombe, Jill Freyne, Dipak B...
VR
2010
IEEE
151views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2010»
13 years 3 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...
FDG
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Affective game engines: motivation and requirements
The tremendous advances in gaming technologies over the past decade have focused primarily on the physical realism of the game environment and game characters, and the complexity ...
Eva Hudlicka
PUC
2010
118views more  PUC 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Designing playful interactions for social interaction and physical play
This paper describes three design values that we apply for designing playful interactions. Interactive play objects can stimulate social interaction and physical play by providing ...
Tilde Bekker, Janienke Sturm, Berry Eggen