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| dc.contributor.author | Gorgu, Levent | |
| dc.contributor.author | Campbell, Abraham G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dragone, Mauro | |
| dc.contributor.author | O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-23T11:51:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-02-23T11:51:33Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2010 ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-12 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | ACM Computers in Entertainment (CIE) Magazine | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1544-3574 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2794 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Childhood obesity [Lung and Initiative, 2000] has become a major problem for many countries in recent years and addressing the obesity epidemic remains an outstanding public health issue. Childhood especially in developed countries become one which is synonymous with abundance. Not only food is in abundance but also is Entertainment. Many blame this increase on a lack physical activity on entertainment, in particular on Video Games [Vandewater et al., 2004]. Entertainment in the future need not exaggerate this problem but become a solution, called Exergaming. Exergaming is the combination of words “Exercise” and “Gaming” and its objective is to motivate people to participate in exercise regimes. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Science Foundation Ireland | en |
| dc.format.extent | 87005 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | ACM | en |
| dc.rights | This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Computers in Entertainment (CIE) VOL8, ISS4 (December 2010) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1921141.1921147. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Publications Dept., ACM, Inc., fax +1 (212) 869-0481, or permissions@acm.org | en |
| dc.subject | Exergaming | en |
| dc.subject | Childhood obesity | en |
| dc.subject | Exercise | en |
| dc.subject | Computer gaming | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Obesity in children--Prevention | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Mixed reality | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Computer games--Health aspects | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Exercise--Software | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Multiagent systems | en |
| dc.title | Exergaming : a future of mixing entertainment and exercise assisted by mixed reality agents | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.internal.availability | Full text available | en |
| dc.internal.webversions | Publisher's version | en |
| dc.internal.webversions | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1921141.1921147 | en |
| dc.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.identifier.volume | 8 | en |
| dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1145/1921141.1921147 | |
| dc.neeo.contributor | Gorgu|Levent|aut| | en |
| dc.neeo.contributor | Campbell|Abraham G.|aut| | en |
| dc.neeo.contributor | Dragone|Mauro|aut| | en |
| dc.neeo.contributor | O'Hare|G. M. P. (Greg M. P.)|aut| | en |
| dc.description.othersponsorship | National Digital Research Centre | en |
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