Exergame effectiveness: What the numbers can tell us

Proceedings - Sandbox 2010: 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 55-61

  Whitehead, Anthony ^a   Johnston, Hannah ^a   Nixon, Nicole ^b   Welch, Jo ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exergames; Quantitative analysis; Sensor networks; SNAP

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; EXERGAMES; HEART DISEASE; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOT CAUSE; SCREEN TIME; SNAP; TIME SPENT; VIDEO GAME;

HEALTH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77956270894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836135.1836144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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