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Balance Assessment in Fall-Prevention Exergames

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Carlos Miguel Dias de Brito,

João Tiago Pinheiro Neto Jacob,

Rui Nóbrega,

António Manuel Nogueira SantosAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

Pages 439 - 440

https://doi.org/10.1145/2700648.2811342

Published: 26 October 2015 Publication History

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To assess the success of fall-prevention oriented exergames two digital games were developed taking advantage of the Wii Balance Board (WBB) capabilities. The objective was to evaluate the exergames' potential to address elderly adults' declining motivation to exercise regularly despite the benefits related to fall-prevention. The system uses the WBB to keep track of the player's center of pressure and computes important balance assessment measures related to it to eventually provide a mean to monitor their patients. The presented demo will feature the two exergames.

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Balance Assessment in Fall-Prevention Exergames
1. Human-centered computing

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ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

October 2015

466 pages

ISBN:9781450334006

DOI:10.1145/2700648

General Chair:
Yeliz Yesilada
Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus
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Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Brito MNóbrega RJacob JRodrigues RCoelho A(2019)Fall-Prevention Exergames Using Balance Board SystemsHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 201910.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_25(406-426)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_25
Berti ZRasche PChauvet RWille MRick VBarton LHellig TSchäfer KBröhl CTheis SBrandl CNitsch VMertens A(2019)Driving Segway: A Musculoskeletal InvestigationAdvances in Human Factors of Transportation10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4_53(585-595)Online publication date: 6-Jun-2019
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Jacob JLopes ANóbrega RRodrigues RCoelho A(2018)Towards Player Adaptivity in Mobile ExergamesAdvances in Computer Entertainment Technology10.1007/978-3-319-76270-8_20(278-292)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76270-8_20

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