A sedentary lifestyle is a contributing factor to chronic diseases, and it is often correlated with
obesity. To promote an increase in physical activity, we created a social computer game …

The global obesity epidemic has prompted our community to explore the potential for
technology to play a stronger role in promoting healthier lifestyles. Although there are …

In recent years, there has been significant work in integrating physical activity into video
games. One goal of this work has been to help motivate sedentary people to be more …

The experience players get from playing a computer game depends on how well the story
and the action can capture players attention. Sometimes people immerse to the game …

Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises)
and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self …

This paper presents a novel way of using real-time heart rate information to control a
physically interactive biathlon (skiing and shooting) computer game. Instead of interfacing …

Many people do not get the recommended 30 minutes of exercise per day, which can result
in health problems such as obesity, muscle atrophy and chronic disease. Based on the …

This article describes research that aims to encourage physical activity through a novel
pervasive gaming paradigm. Data from a wearable accelerometer are logged wirelessly to a …

There has been a continuous increase in the design and application of computer games for
purposes other than entertainment in recent years. Serious games—games that motivate …

In addition to a broad range of different application areas, health games differ in the level of
abstraction of the game's message or goal and the way to achieve game benefits. Most …