Complete motion control of a serious game against obesity in children

Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conferenceon Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 178-179

  Scarle, Simon ^a   Dunwell, Ian ^a   Bashford Rogers, Thomas ^b   Selmanovic, Elmedin ^b   Debattista, Kurt ^b   Chalmers, Alan ^b   Powell, John ^b   Robertson, Wendy ^b  

^a Faculty of Health and Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CHILDREN'S HEALTH; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; INPUT DEVICES; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SERIOUS GAMES; USER INTERACTION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

NUTRITION;

EID: 80052118015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2011.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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