Title :
VirtualBike: An Exergame Designed to Cyclists
Author :
Maneck Malfatti, Silvano ; Yepes, Igor
Author_Institution :
Sist. de Informacao, Univ. do Tocantins, Palmas, Brazil
Abstract :
An exergame can be defined as a software application that combines electronic games and exercises, in which the player uses his body movements to interact with a virtual world. This paper describes the design and application of an exergame called Virtual Bike by which is possible to capture the movements that the player do on a real bycicle using a Kinect sensor.
Keywords :
computer games; image sensors; medical computing; virtual reality; Kinect sensor; VirtualBike; body movement; cyclists; electronic games; exercises; exergame; software application; virtual world; Abstracts; Augmented reality; Games; Three-dimensional displays; Visualization; Cyclism; Exergames; Kinect; Virtual Reality;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR), 2014 XVI Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Piata Salvador
DOI :
10.1109/SVR.2014.12
