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Designing a Personalized VR Exergame

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UMAP '17: Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3099023.3099115

Published: 09 July 2017 Publication History

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Exercise is essential for health and well-being. However, it can be difficult for people to meet the recommended amount of daily exercise simply due to the lack of motivation. It has recently become apparent that virtual reality games, even though they were not explicitly designed for exercise, have the potential to provide enough exercise to achieve recommended levels of activity for a day, while keeping people motivated. However, as these games have not generally not been designed for exercise, there is a risk that people may either under- or over-exert themselves. Therefore, in this paper we present and discuss our design for a virtual reality exergame that utilizes a user model and dynamic difficulty adjustment to deliver personalized activity levels and experiences.

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UMAP '17: Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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DOI:10.1145/3099023

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Free University of Bolzano
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University of Leeds
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SAP SE & University of Cyprus
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University of Sydney
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CSIRO ICT Centre
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Spanish National University for Distance Education
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Polytechnique University, Montreal, Canada
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