Astrojumper: Designing a virtual reality exergame to motivate children with autism to exercise

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 267-268

  Finkelstein, Samantha L ^a   Nickel, Andrea ^a   Barnes, Tiffany ^a   Suma, Evan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Exergames; H.5.1 information interfaces and presentation : multimedia information systems artificial, augmented, and virtual realities; K.4.2 computers and society : social issues handicapped persons special needs; K.8.0 personal computing : general games; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; H.5.1 [INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION]: MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS - ARTIFICIAL, AUGMENTED, AND VIRTUAL REALITIES; K.4.2 [COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY]: SOCIAL ISSUES - HANDICAPPED PERSONS/SPECIAL NEEDS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; SOCIAL ISSUES; VIRTUAL SPACES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PERSONAL COMPUTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77952711351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2010.5444770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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