Title :
Design and Development of an Inertial Sensor Based Exergame for Recovery-Step Training
Author :
Bourke, Alan Kevin ; Barre, Arnaud ; Mariani, Benoit ; El Achkar, Christopher Moufawad ; Paraschiv-Ionescu, Ani ; Aminian, Kamiar ; Vereijken, Beatrix ; Skjaeret, Nina ; Helbostad, Jorunn
Author_Institution :
Lab. of Movement Anal. & Meas., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Through incorporating stepping movements into the game play of a VR based exergame, it is envisaged that older adults can reduce their fall-risk by training their balance recovery stepping movements in all directions. This type of exercise intervention thus presents a reliable structured way of reducing fall-risk. This paper explores the design of stepping based exergame from a taxonomy point of view and also addresses the main challenge in developing an entertaining exergame incorporating reliable real-time step detection.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical equipment; computer games; geriatrics; VR based exergame; balance recovery stepping movements; exercise intervention; fall-risk reduction; game play; inertial sensor based exergame; older adults; recovery-step training; reliable real-time step detection; taxonomy; Accuracy; Foot; Games; Real-time systems; Taxonomy; Training; Usability; Exergame; real-time; step detection; taxonomy;
Conference_Titel :
Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops (BSN Workshops), 2014 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6135-1
DOI :
10.1109/BSN.Workshops.2014.16
