HIITCopter: Analysis of the Suitability of VR Exergaming for High-Intensity Interval Training

She, Harrison; Young, Jared; Wittenberg, Ofek; Poole, Patrick; Mercer, Alexander; Shaw, Alex; Wünsche, Burkhard C.

doi:10.1145/3441000.3441009

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“…Overall, we identified 129 games that reported their purpose. Unsurprisingly, many XR exergames drive for physical training (𝑛=39); some games aim for endurance training (𝑛=14) and involve high-intensity interval training protocols, such as [227,235]. Others offer strength training for their users to improve muscular power (𝑛=7).…”

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“…More commonly, in-game performance-based adaptation (𝑛=17) changes the game difficulty based on the players' success and performance (e.g., [44,255]. Finally, in-game physiological-based adaptation uses the players' physiological data to individualize the gameplay (𝑛=9): for example, "if the heart rate is too low the procedurally generated rings are placed higher requiring more stroke power to pass through them" [227].…”

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Born to Run, Programmed to Play: Mapping the Extended Reality Exergames Landscape

Karaosmanoglu,

Cmentowski,

Nacke

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Many people struggle to exercise regularly, raising the risk of serious health-related issues. Extended reality (XR) exergames address these hurdles by combining physical exercises with enjoyable, immersive gameplay. While a growing body of research explores XR exergames, no previous review has structured this rapidly expanding research landscape. We conducted a scoping review of the current state of XR exergame research to (i) provide a structured overview, (ii) highlight trends, and (iii) uncover knowledge gaps. After identifying 1318 papers in human-computer interaction and medical databases, we ultimately included 186 papers in our analysis. We provide a quantitative and qualitative summary of XR exergame research, showing current trends and potential future considerations. Finally, we provide a taxonomy of XR exergames to help future design and methodological investigation and reporting. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Mixed / augmented reality; Virtual reality; HCI theory, concepts and models; • Software and its engineering → Interactive games.

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Born to Run, Programmed to Play: Mapping the Extended Reality Exergames Landscape

Karaosmanoglu,

Cmentowski,

Nacke

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…A VR game for the elderly with Alzheimer's and cognitive impairment involves rowing scenes [51]. The VR rowing games aimed at professional training have a few things in common: (1) a rowing machine is used as an external device to simulate the real rowing movement; (2) the use of posture and movement parts are relatively fixed, for full-body movement in a seated position (except the study by Shim et al, for stance [52]); (3) the real-time monitoring of biofeedback data to analyse and adjust training, such as breathing [53] and heart rate [7,54]; (4) no definite presentation device preference, immersive VR (HMD or CAVE) [6,55] and non-immersive VR (large screen) are mentioned [7]; (5) the cooperative and competitive relationships in real rowing games are designed in VR rowing games [52].…”

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Conceptual Design of an Extended Reality Exercise Game for the Elderly

Sundstedt

et al. 2022

Applied Sciences

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Facing the increasingly serious ageing problem, IT technology is being applied more and more to alleviate the increasing health demands of the elderly. Virtual reality (VR) games, in particular, have been shown to benefit the physical and mental health of the elderly. However, almost all consumer-level VR games address the general user, not considering the characteristics of the elderly, such as their particular needs regarding cognitive aspects and safety. In addition, the existing VR rowing games’ research typically focuses on athlete training or is based on a rowing machine. Extending on previous research, this paper proposes a conceptual design of a VR rowing game, VRrowing to provide a home exercise game for the elderly which benefits both physical and mental health. This research first analysed the relevant literature and existing VR exercise games for the elderly to find characteristics and their particular needs. Then, following design principles (in exercise games, human–computer interaction, and user interfaces (UIs)) for the elderly, this study proposed a conceptual design of VRrowing through the MDA framework (standing for mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics). The results cover the system architecture, activities and tasks, patterns and roles, mechanics and structures, and UI examples. Based on comprehensive consideration of the results from relevant research and fostering strengths and circumventing weaknesses, VRrowing was designed as a sports game, aimed at the elderly according to their characteristics and needs, which fills the void of home VR rowing games for seniors’ exercise. This research has reference value for scientific research or development personnel in VR game applications and evaluations, especially for such games targeting the elderly.

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“…To encourage people to have active lifestyle, researchers and developers in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) have developed a lot of VR exergames (Alce et al, 2019;Born et al, 2019;Campbell & Fraser, 2019b, 2019aCao et al, 2020;Cho & Park, 2020;Ijaz et al, 2020;Kishishita et al, 2019;Kojic et al, 2019;Li et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2020;Michael & Lutteroth, 2020;Narejo et al, 2020;Perrin et al, 2019;Ščiglinskas et al, 2019;She et al, 2020;Varela-Aldás et al, 2020;Wirth et al, 2020b;Xu, Ma, et al, 2020). Exergames is one of the ways to encourage people to exercise as the physical exercises was gamified with the game mechanics in VR systems (N. Nor et al, 2020a; N. N. Nor et al, 2020b).…”

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Representation of Young Malay Muslim Optimism in Hoore! Hoore! (2012) and Adiwiraku (2017)

Sunar¹,

Bahrin²,

Nor³

et al. 2022

jcisc

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Nowadays, people are busy with gadgets, social media and playing video games that tends their bodies to physically inactive. However, Virtual Reality (VR) exergaming in literature has proven to be one of the best solutions to encourage these sedentary people to live in a healthier lifestyle. Exergaming refers to a combination of video games with a physical exercise that rely on the technology that can track body movement. Hence, this project aims to develop a cycling exergame that integrate with HTC Vive hand controller in VR. There are four phases have been carried out namely (i) problem investigation, (ii) designing the game structure, (iii) implementation of VR cycling exergame, and (iv) testing and evaluation. The usability testing results shows the users feedback on the development of VR Exergame for cycling in terms of the user interface design, player interaction, difficulty of the game and user satisfaction in understanding the game. The user acceptance testing results shows that this game works accordingly, however there are some suggestion and expectation from user that can be measured for improvement and enhancement in future works. Based on the result, this project is successfully produced a cycling exergame in VR and significantly improve the user experience in VR.

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HIITCopter: Analysis of the Suitability of VR Exergaming for High-Intensity Interval Training

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

Born to Run, Programmed to Play: Mapping the Extended Reality Exergames Landscape

Born to Run, Programmed to Play: Mapping the Extended Reality Exergames Landscape

Conceptual Design of an Extended Reality Exercise Game for the Elderly

Representation of Young Malay Muslim Optimism in Hoore! Hoore! (2012) and Adiwiraku (2017)

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