A serious computer game to assist Tai Chi training for the elderly

2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  De Morais, Wagner O ^a   Wickström, Nicholas ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

fall prevention; gesture evaluation; movement analysis; Serious Games; Tai Chi; wearable inertial measurement units

Indexed keywords

FALL PREVENTION; GESTURE EVALUATION; MOVEMENT ANALYSIS; SERIOUS GAMES; TAI CHI; WEARABLE INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS;

UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 84859010895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SeGAH.2011.6165450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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