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Pet-N-Punch: upper body tactile/audio exergame to engage children with visual impairments into physical activity

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Lauren Lieberman,

Eelke FolmerAuthors Info & Claims

GI '11: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2011

Pages 223 - 230

Published: 25 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Individuals with visual impairments have significantly higher levels of obesity and often exhibit delays in motor development, caused by a general lack of opportunities to be physically active. Tactile/audio based exergames that only involve motions of the dominant arm have been successfully explored to engage individuals with visual impairments into physical activity. This paper presents an accessible exergame called Pet-N-Punch that can be played using one or two arms. A user study with 12 children who were blind showed that they were able to achieve light to moderate physical activity, but no significant difference in energy expenditure was detected between both versions. The two arm version had a significantly higher error rate than the one arm version, which shows that the two arm version has a significantly higher cognitive load. Players were found to be able to respond to tactile/audio cues within 2500ms.

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Pet-N-Punch: upper body tactile/audio exergame to engage children with visual impairments into physical activity
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices

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GI '11: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2011

May 2011

247 pages

ISBN:9781450306935

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Stephen Brooks
Dalhousie University, Canada
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Pourang Irani
University of Manitoba, Canada

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Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society

Waterloo, Canada

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Published: 25 May 2011

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Rector KVilardaga RLansky LLu KBennett CLadner RKientz J(2017)Design and Real-World Evaluation of Eyes-Free YogaACM Transactions on Accessible Computing10.1145/30227299:4(1-25)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2017
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