Using heart rate to control an interactive game

Nenonen, Ville; Lindblad, Aleksi; Häkkinen, Ville; Laitinen, Toni; Jouhtio, Mikko; Hämäläinen, Perttu

doi:10.1145/1240624.1240752

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“…Others have integrated standard exercise equipment, such as the stationary bikes used in Heart Burn [15] and Life is a Village [16]. Exergames have also been developed that do not prescribe the type of exercise, but are based on the player's heart rate, such as Triple Beat [17] and Nenonen et al's biathlon game [18].…”

Section: Exergamesmentioning

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GrabApple: The Design of a Casual Exergame

Gao

Mandryk

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Many people do not get the recommended 30 minutes of exercise per day, which can result in health problems such as obesity, muscle atrophy and chronic disease. Based on the principles of casual games and exergames, we propose and define casual exergames for motivating people to exercise in multiple small chunks of time throughout the day. We designed, implemented, and tested a casual exergame called GrabApple. Our preliminary results show that users enjoyed playing the casual exergame and that in just 10 minutes of play, their heart rate was elevated to an average of 72% of maximum heart rate, and that they burned an average of 91.8 Calories. If played three times per day, our casual exergame produced sufficient physical activity to meet current fitness guidelines. We discuss the potential health benefits of casual exergames.

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Section: Exergamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

GrabApple: The Design of a Casual Exergame

Gao

Mandryk

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…In TripleBeat, joggers are rewarded during a run with high scores for maintaining an appropriate target heart rate [17]. In Nenonen et al's biathlon game, heart rate was used to control the speed of the skier during the race portion and the steadiness of the aim during the shooting portion [18]. Indirect use of heart rate in a game includes Masuko and Hoshino's boxing game, where content is adjusted to keep the player in their target heart rate zone [19], and Buttussi et al's use of heart rate to adjust game difficulty in two sample games [20].…”

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Gemini: A Pervasive Accumulated Context Exergame

Stanley

Livingston

Bandurka

et al. 2011

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011

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Abstract. Exergames encourage physical activity, but generally require specialized hardware and prescribed activities; whereas pervasive accumulated context exergames (PACEs) allow players to choose their type of exercise, but have limited depth of play. For mass commercialization of PACEs, facilitating long-term behavioural change, we propose two requirements: that PACEs support large-scale and flexible deployment; and that the design of PACEs support staying power through long-term playability. From these requirements, we motivate six PACE design principles and use these principles to develop a multiplayer roleplaying PACE. Results from a week-long study of our game showed that by satisfying the six design principles, we can create a PACE with scalability and staying power. Our results are the first step toward creating PACEs that promotes long-term game engagement, which is needed for activity-related behaviour change.

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“…Finding motivation is key to ushering in behaviour change [20]. Thus, visualizing activity data in engaging ways has been studied using e.g., virtual metaphors [6,22], physical metaphors [17,19,34] and video games [2,26]. We explore living visualizations to extend this trend.…”

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Go and Grow

Botros

Périn

Aseniero

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link ABSTRACTMotivation is a key factor for introducing and maintaining healthy changes in behaviour. However, typical visualization methods (e.g., bar-, pie-, and line charts) hardly motivate individuals. We investigate how a plant-a living visualization-whose health relies on the plant owner's level of activity, can engage people in tracking and self-reflecting on their fitness data. To address this question, we designed, implemented, and studied Go & Grow, a living plant that receives water proportionally to its owner's activity. Our six-week qualitative study with ten participants suggests that living visualizations have qualities that their digital counterparts do not have. This includes people feeling: emotionally connected to their plant; sentiments such as pride and guilt; and responsibility towards their plant. Based on this study, we introduce the Goal Motivation Model, a model considering the diversity of individuals, thus supporting and encouraging a diversity of strategies for accomplishing goals.

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Using heart rate to control an interactive game

Cited by 88 publications

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GrabApple: The Design of a Casual Exergame

GrabApple: The Design of a Casual Exergame

Gemini: A Pervasive Accumulated Context Exergame

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