Videogames to Promote Physical Activity in Older Adults with Schizophrenia

Leutwyler, Heather; Hubbard, Erin; Vinogradov, Sophia; Dowling, Glenna A.

doi:10.1089/g4h.2012.0051

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“…21,22 Participants use their body to control the game via the Kinect's full-body tracking sensor system that recognizes the participant's body and mirrors those movements in the game.…”

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Adherence to a Videogame-Based Physical Activity Program for Older Adults with Schizophrenia

Leutwyler

Hubbard

Dowling

2014

Games for Health Journal

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Objectives: Adults with schizophrenia are a growing segment of the older adult population. Evidence suggests that they engage in limited physical activity. Interventions are needed that are tailored around their unique limitations. An active videogame-based physical activity program that can be offered at a treatment facility can overcome these barriers and increase motivation to engage in physical activity. The purpose of this report is to describe the adherence to a videogame-based physical activity program using the Kinect Ò for Xbox Ò 360 game system (Microsoft Ò , Redmond, WA) in older adults with schizophrenia. Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive longitudinal study among 34 older adults with schizophrenia to establish the adherence to an active videogame-based physical activity program. In our ongoing program, once a week for 6 weeks, participants played an active videogame, using the Kinect for Xbox 360 game system, for 30 minutes. Adherence was measured with a count of sessions attended and with the total minutes attended out of the possible total minutes of attendance (180 minutes). Results: Thirty-four adults with schizophrenia enrolled in the study. The mean number of groups attended was five out of six total (standard deviation = 2), and the mean total minutes attended were 139 out of 180 possible (standard deviation = 55). Fifty percent had perfect attendance. Conclusions: Older adults with schizophrenia need effective physical activity programs. Adherence to our program suggests that videogames that use the Kinect for Xbox 360 game system are an innovative way to make physical activity accessible to this population.

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Adherence to a Videogame-Based Physical Activity Program for Older Adults with Schizophrenia

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Dowling

2014

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“…Bernard et al, 2013;Faulkner & Sparkes, 1999;Gorczynski, Faulkner, Cohn, & Remington, 2014a;Maggouritsa et al, 2014;Melamed et al, 2008;Methapatara & Srisurapanont, 2011;Sailer et al, 2015;Warren et al, 2011;Wu, Wang, Bai, Huang, & Lee, 2007). Other studies used Yoga (Behere et al, 2011;Duraiswamy, Thirthalli, Physical activity information Nagendra, & Gangadhar, 2007), video games (Leutwyler, Hubbard, Vinogradov, & Dowling, 2012) and small-sided competitive games (Gomes et al, 2014).…”

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Examining methods, messengers and behavioural theories to disseminate physical activity information to individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia: a scoping review

Gorczynski

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Faulkner

2017

Journal of Mental Health

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“…Motion gaming was reported to be an effective means for treatment of chronic disease [36], increasing physical activity (PA) [37,38], and improving physiologic responses [39]. In the medical field, Kinect is widely accepted as a tool for developing motion games to provide functional training [40], treatment [41], and rehabilitation [42][43][44][45].…”

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UKI: universal Kinect‐type controller by ICE Lab

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Thawonmas

2017

Softw Pract Exp

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Summary Universal Kinect‐type‐controller by ICE Lab (UKI, pronounced as ‘You‐key’) was developed to allow users to control any existing application by using body motions as inputs. The middleware works by converting detected motions into keyboard and/or mouse‐click events and sending them to a target application. This paper presents the structure and design of core modules, along with examples from real cases to illustrate how the middleware can be configured to fit a variety of applications. We present our designs for interfaces that decode all configuration details into a human‐interpretable language, and these interfaces significantly promote user experience and eliminate the need for programming skill. The performance of the middleware is evaluated on fighting‐game motion data, and we make the data publicly available so that they can be used in other researches. UKI welcomes its use by everyone without any restrictions on use; for instance, it can be used to promote healthy life through a means of gaming and/or used to conduct serious research on motion systems. The middleware serves as a shortcut in the development of motion applications—coding of an application to detect motions can be replaced with simple clicks on UKI. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Videogames to Promote Physical Activity in Older Adults with Schizophrenia

Cited by 32 publications

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Adherence to a Videogame-Based Physical Activity Program for Older Adults with Schizophrenia

Adherence to a Videogame-Based Physical Activity Program for Older Adults with Schizophrenia

Examining methods, messengers and behavioural theories to disseminate physical activity information to individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia: a scoping review

UKI: universal Kinect‐type controller by ICE Lab

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