Title :
Towards Mobile Collaborative Exergaming
Author :
Gorgu, Levent ; O´Hare, Gregory M P ; O´Grady, Michael J.
Author_Institution :
CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technol., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
Today\´s high calorie diets and low physical activity levels contributes towards childhood obesity. Exergaming, a combination of "exercise" and "gaming" was conceived as a means of addressing this problem. In this paper a mobile collaborative exergame, which is designed to be enjoyable and physically challenging, is presented. The long term objective is to harness conventional mobile computing technologies to deliver a platform for games that are adaptive to the exercise requirements of individual children.
Keywords :
computer games; mobile computing; personal computing; collaborative contexts; exercise; gaming; mobile collaborative exergaming; mobile computing technologies; Aging; Collaborative work; Computers; Educational institutions; Games; International collaboration; Mobile computing; Pediatrics; Pervasive computing; Toy industry; pervasive health;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, 2009. CENTRIC '09. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Porto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4781-7
DOI :
10.1109/CENTRIC.2009.16
