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

fYear

2014

fDate

16-19 June 2014

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

32

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSN.Workshops.2014.16

Filename

6970622