Implications for an exercise prescription authoring notation

Author

Dodge, Jonathan E. ; Metoyer, Ronald A. ; Gunter, Katherine B.

Author_Institution

Sch. of EECS, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

14

Abstract

Communicating dynamic motion content, such as exercise, with a static medium, such as paper, is difficult. The technology exists for presenting 3D animated exercise content to patients, however, the tools for allowing exercise domain experts to effectively author the content do not exist. We conducted two formative studies with exercise science domain experts to discover the requirements for an exercise prescription authoring notation. Based on our findings, we implemented a software prototype and performed a think-aloud study to understand its strengths and weaknesses. The results of our studies have implications for any software solution aimed at the authoring of physical activity content.

Keywords

authoring systems; computer animation; medical computing; user centred design; 3D animated exercise contents; dynamic motion content; exercise prescription authoring notation; exercise science domain experts; physical activity content; software prototype; think-aloud study; Animation; Games; Humans; Injuries; Libraries; Software performance; Software prototyping; Statistics; User centered design; Videos; content authoring; exercise prescription; exercise science; motion capture animation; user-centered design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2009. VL/HCC 2009. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Corvallis, OR

ISSN

1943-6092

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4876-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295311

Filename

5295311