Gaming for Health

Bleakley, Chris; Charles, Darryl; Porter-Armstrong, Alison; McNeill, Michael; McDonough, Suzanne; McCormack, Brendan

doi:10.1177/0733464812470747

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“…They found that cognitive function was improved among the cybercyclers, and that it was likely that it would help to prevent cognitive decline compared to traditional exercise. Overall, while there has been significant work in this area, a systematic review carried out by Bleakley et al (2013) found that although these types of approach are safe and effective, that that there is limited high quality evidence currently available.…”

Section: Exercisementioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

2016

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SUMMARYVirtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] -although the hardware was completely different. In the 1980s and 1990s, VR emerged again based on a different generation of hardware (e.g., CRT displays rather than vector refresh, electromagnetic tracking instead of mechanical). This reached the attention of the public, and VR was hailed by many engineers, scientists, celebrities, and business people as the beginning of a new era, when VR would soon change the world for the better. Then, VR disappeared from public view and was rumored to be "dead. " In the intervening 25 years a huge amount of research has nevertheless been carried out across a vast range of applications -from medicine to business, from psychotherapy to industry, from sports to travel. Scientists, engineers, and people working in industry carried on with their research and applications using and exploring different forms of VR, not knowing that actually the topic had already passed away.The purpose of this article is to survey a range of VR applications where there is some evidence for, or at least debate about, its utility, mainly based on publications in peer-reviewed journals. Of course not every type of application has been covered, nor every scientific paper (about 186,000 papers in Google Scholar): in particular, in this review we have not covered applications in psychological or medical rehabilitation. The objective is that the reader becomes aware of what has been accomplished in VR, where the evidence is weaker or stronger, and what can be done. We start in Section 1 with an outline of what VR is and the major conceptual framework used to understand what happens when people experience it -the concept of "presence. " In Section 2, we review some areas where VR has been used in science -mostly psychology and neuroscience, the area of scientific visualization, and some remarks about its use in education and surgical training. In Section 3, we discuss how VR has been used in sports and exercise. In Section 4, we survey applications in social psychology and related areas -how VR has been used to throw light on some social phenomena, and how it can be used to tackle experimentally areas that cannot be studied experimentally in real life. We conclude with how it has been used in the preservation of and access to cultural heritage. In Section 5, we present the domain of moral behavior, including an example of how it might be used to train professionals such as medical doctors when confronting serious dilemmas with patients. In Section 6, we consider how VR has been and might be used in various aspects of travel, collaboration, and industry. In Section 7, we consider mainly the use of VR in news presentation and also discuss different types of VR. In the concluding Section 8, we briefly consider new ideas that have recently emerged -an impossible task since during the short time we have written this page even newer idea...

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Section: Exercisementioning

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Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

2016

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“…Recent research has gradually integrated this technique as a valuable therapeutic tool in the rehabilitation of older people [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Indeed, VR, especially in the form of serious games (SGs), combines therapeutic and recreational challenges [16]. This implicit interactive strategy prevents boredom, making the therapy less tiring and dispiriting.…”

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“…However, most studies using VR are based on commercially available games designed for the entertainment of healthy people [16]. Studies have shown different VR systems with specific interfaces, graphics, sceneries, principles of gameplay, and presentation of scores.…”

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A serious game developed for physical rehabilitation of frail elderly

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Júnior

Hounsell

et al. 2016

European Research in Telemedicine / La Recherche Européenne en

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“…Several reviews on intervention studies of exergaming have already been published. [15][16][17][18][19][20] However, the systematic reviews have focused on children, 15 on those in a very broad age group, [16][17][18][19] or on both healthy and diseased elderly participants. 20 Several overview articles have recently been published reviewing the current status of exergaming on specifically elderly adults.…”

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“…[15][16][17][18][19][20] However, the systematic reviews have focused on children, 15 on those in a very broad age group, [16][17][18][19] or on both healthy and diseased elderly participants. 20 Several overview articles have recently been published reviewing the current status of exergaming on specifically elderly adults. [21][22][23][24] However, these articles have had an explorative approach (e.g., they have not conducted a systematic literature search, and they have included different study designs).…”

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The Physical Effect of Exergames in Healthy Elderly—A Systematic Review

Larsen

Schou

Lund

et al. 2013

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Exergames have been suggested as an innovative approach to enhance physical activity in the elderly. The objective of this review was to determine the effectiveness of exergames on validated quantitative physical outcomes in healthy elderly individuals. We used Centre for Review and Disseminations guidance to conduct systematic reviews. Four electronic databases were searched. We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the study participants were healthy elderly individuals, and the intervention of interest was exergaming. The title and abstract screening of the 1861 citations identified 36 studies as potentially eligible for this review, and an additional nine were identified from reference lists. The full text screening identified seven studies with a total of 311 participants, all reporting RCTs with low-to-moderate methodological quality. Six of the seven studies found a positive effect of exergaming on the health of the elderly. However, the variation of intervention approaches and outcome data collected limited the extent to which studies could be compared. This review demonstrates how exergames have a potential to improve physical health in the elderly. However, there is a need for additional and better-designed studies that assess the effectiveness and long-term adherence of exergames designed specifically for the elderly.

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Gaming for Health

Cited by 163 publications

References 32 publications

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

A serious game developed for physical rehabilitation of frail elderly

The Physical Effect of Exergames in Healthy Elderly—A Systematic Review

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