Exergaming - gaming for health: A bridge between real world and virtual communities

Arto Laikari

doi:10.1109/ISCE.2009.5157004

Exergaming - gaming for health: A bridge between real world and virtual communities

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Abstract

The urban lifestyle is hectic and information rich. A busy work pace and digital entertainment take time away from real world physical exercise, while lifestyle diseases increase globally. An aging population and diminishing resources for public healthcare cause pressure to move healthcare resources from treatment to prevention of illnesses. Exergaming, which is a term combining "exercise" and "gaming", has a lot of potential to provide various new service business opportunities for the Entertainment and Recreation as well as the Healthcare sectors. We started with scenario work, consumer studies and exergame roadmapping and interviews with potential actors and created two prototype concepts, "Fitness Adventure" and "Figuremeter" in our project. At the beginning of our project, Exergaming was not a very wellknown concept by the masses. The emerging success stories of Nintendo Wii and everyman GPS devices have shown that combining existing technologies in a novel way has already opened the Exergamerelated market and consumers are willing to use such services.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ISCE2009
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	665-668
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4244-2976-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-2975-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2009.5157004
Publication status	Published - 2009
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	13th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, ISCE2009 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: 25 May 2009 → 28 May 2009

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Conference	13th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, ISCE2009
Abbreviated title	ISCE2009
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	25/05/09 → 28/05/09

Keywords

exergame
fitness adventure
figumeter
ict for healthcare
virtual communities
location based services
location based gaming
user created content

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Laikari, A 2009, Exergaming - gaming for health: A bridge between real world and virtual communities. in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ISCE2009. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 665-668, 13th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, ISCE2009, Kyoto, Japan, 25/05/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2009.5157004

Exergaming - gaming for health: A bridge between real world and virtual communities. / Laikari, Arto.
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ISCE2009. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2009. p. 665-668.

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