NEAT-o-Games: Blending physical activity and fun in the daily routine

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Fujiki, Yuichi ^a,c   Kazakos, Konstantinos ^a,c   Puri, Colin ^a,c   Buddharaju, Pradeep ^a,c   Pavlidis, Ioannis ^a,c   Levine, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Pervasive gaming; Ubiquitous computing; Wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

CELL PHONES; CELLULAR NETWORKS; PERVASIVE GAMING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES; PILOT EXPERIMENTS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEARABLE SENSORS;

ANIMATION; BLENDING; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WEIGHT CONTROL;

HEALTH;

EID: 49449101604     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1371216.1371224     Document Type: Article

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