Title :
Context aware serious games framework for sport and health
Author :
Hardy, Sandro ; El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb ; Göbel, Stefan ; Steinmetz, Ralf
Author_Institution :
Multimedia Commun. Lab., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
Serious Games for Sport and Health are a promising chance to help people to improve their health. In this paper, we address the challenges of adding context awareness to Serious Games for Sport and Health. We propose a framework for social networks and web services that is specialized in capturing temporal and spatial context as well as vital parameters of a user. Our framework dynamically maps necessary e-Health services such as exergames. In this way, we assist a user to find the most appropriate health services according to his/her needs at anytime and anywhere. We present our initial proof of concept implementation of the framework, which includes new sensor based Serious Games for Sport and Health as well as our test results.
Keywords :
Web services; biomedical communication; health care; medical computing; sport; ubiquitous computing; Web services; context aware serious games framework; e-Health services; social networks; sport; Calendars; Context; Context-aware services; Data mining; Games; Multimedia communication; Social network services; Context Awareness; Exergames; Personalization; Sensors; Serious Games for Health; Social Networks; Web Services;
Conference_Titel :
Medical Measurements and Applications Proceedings (MeMeA), 2011 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Bari
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9336-4
DOI :
10.1109/MeMeA.2011.5966775