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As children grow, they undergo loco-motor and cognitive development and acquire skills and abilities matched to their developmental stage. Correlations between gross-motor and cognitive development, for instance walking and language learning, have been reported. This insunateS loco-motor development echoes on cognitive development and delays on the first, may impact on a child’s potential to learn. Concerns regarding loco-motor development are commonly raised by parents or diagnosed by healthcare professionals. Motion gesture detection gaming technologies, may be used to screen and monitor gross-motor skills in developing children. However, challenges concerning: the accuracy of these sensors to detect the gestures of young children and, the design of activities that provide clear instructions and virtual environments that adapt to the real-world remain. This paper presents activities designed to guide children (2–7 years old) to perform loco-motor skills: jump, hop and run, matched to their developmental stage. It also provides results from pilot studies informing the design choices and the scaffolds children require to engage with the activities.
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Benoît Bossavit receives funding from the EU H2020 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Career-FIT fellowship (Co-fund grant No. 713654). A special thanks to all the children and parents who participated and spent their time on our study.
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Bossavit, B., Arnedillo-Sánchez, I. (2019). A Novel Approach to Monitor Loco-Motor Skills in Children: A Pilot Study. In: Scheffel, M., Broisin, J., Pammer-Schindler, V., Ioannou, A., Schneider, J. (eds) Transforming Learning with Meaningful Technologies. EC-TEL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29736-7_86
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