FITTER - A Framework for Integrating Activity Tracking Technologies into Electric Recreation for Children and Adolescents
Encouraging physical activity amongst children and adolescents is becoming an increasingly relevant issue in modern society. Studies have shown that involving children and adolescents in physical activity is essential for their physical, mental and social development. However, with technology playing an increasingly important role in reducing physical work it is becoming more critical to incorporate adequate physical activities into our lives. One way to overcome this problem is to harness technology so that it promotes physical activities, for example, by motivating children and adolescents to exercise more. This paper describes a promising solution to the question of how to increase levels of physical activity in children and adolescents by combining gaming technologies with exercise tracking goals. This research describes a framework called FITTER (Framework for Integrating activity Tracking Technologies for Electronic Recreation) that combines video game play with more traditional, non-computer physical activities.
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Fitness," in Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th
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Exercising? A Meta-Analysis of Energy Expenditure in Active Video
Games " Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, vol. 14 pp.
681-688, November 28, 2011.
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cardiovascular responses to seated and active gaming in children,"
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science: the present and the future," Psychology of Sport and Exercise,
vol. 4, pp. 57-65, 2003.
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Computer Game," in UbiComp 2006: Ubiquitous Computing. vol. 4206,
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activity levels with unaugmented mobile phones," Mobile Networks and
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behavior and ideal weight," in Proceedings of the 2011 annual
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fitness and health," in Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
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walk," Medicine & Science In Sports & Exercise, vol. 35, pp. 1779-
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physical activity in the field," Medicine and science in sports and
exercise, vol. 32, pp. S442-S449, 2000.
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physical activity and improve health: A systematic review," JAMA, vol.
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for researchers and practitioners using pedometers to measure physical
(ambulatory) activity," Research quarterly for exercise and sport, vol.
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pedometers for measuring distance walked," Medicine and science in
sports and exercise, vol. 28, p. 1071, 1996.
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patterns of elementary school children," Pediatric Exercise Science, vol.
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@article{"International Journal of Medical, Medicine and Health Sciences:65047", author = "R. Altamimi and G. Skinner and K. Nesbitt", title = "FITTER - A Framework for Integrating Activity Tracking Technologies into Electric Recreation for Children and Adolescents", abstract = "Encouraging physical activity amongst children and adolescents is becoming an increasingly relevant issue in modern society. Studies have shown that involving children and adolescents in physical activity is essential for their physical, mental and social development. However, with technology playing an increasingly important role in reducing physical work it is becoming more critical to incorporate adequate physical activities into our lives. One way to overcome this problem is to harness technology so that it promotes physical activities, for example, by motivating children and adolescents to exercise more. This paper describes a promising solution to the question of how to increase levels of physical activity in children and adolescents by combining gaming technologies with exercise tracking goals. This research describes a framework called FITTER (Framework for Integrating activity Tracking Technologies for Electronic Recreation) that combines video game play with more traditional, non-computer physical activities.
", keywords = "Exergames, Home-based eHealth, Human-computer Interaction, Natural User Interfaces, Wearable Health Informatics.", volume = "7", number = "9", pages = "562-10", }
