Design, Implementation, and Wide Pilot Deployment of FitForAll: An Easy to use Exergaming Platform Improving Physical Fitness and Life Quality of Senior Citizens

Konstantinidis, Evdokimos I.; Billis, Antonis; Mouzakidis, Christos; Zilidou, Vasiliki I.; Antoniou, Panagiotis E.; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.

doi:10.1109/jbhi.2014.2378814

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“…"Avoid the Shark" and "Smart Shrimp" were also used in one of the publications. Another publication used a custom designed platform called "Fit For All" which utilised a Wii Nun chuck™ and a Wii Balance Board™ among other equipment, to navigate web-based custom designed exergames; "Hiking", "Cycling (Stationary mini-bike)", "Ski Jump", "Arkanoid", "Apple Tree", "Fishing" and "Mini-golf" [39]. Three publications used a Microsoft Kinect™ camera, one with a custom designed set up with "Apple Game", "Tight Rope", "Balloon Pop" and "One Leg…”

Section: Consoles and Gamesmentioning

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Movements of older adults during exergaming interventions that are associated with the Systems Framework for Postural Control: A systematic review

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One in three older adults fall annually, in part due to impairments in the physiological systems that make up the postural control (PC) system. Exercise, particularly balance training, helps to prevent deterioration and even to improve outcomes in the PC system. Exergaming (exercise-gaming) is interactive computer gaming whereby an individual moves the body in response to onscreen cues in a playful format. Exergaming is an alternative method to standard practice for improving PC outcomes, which has been shown to reduce the risk of falling. Exergaming has received research attention, yet the intervention is still in its infancy. There could be benefit in exploring the movements trained with respect to a framework known for identifying underlying deficits in the PC system, the Systems Framework for Postural Control (SFPC). This may help target areas for improvement in balance training using exergames and shed light on the impact for fall prevention. A literature search was therefore conducted across six databases (CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed, ISI, SPORTdiscus and Science Direct) using a range of search terms and combinations relating to exergaming, balance, exercise, falls and elderly. Quality assessment was conducted using the PEDro Scale and a custom-made quality assessment tool. Movements were rated by two reviewers based on the 9 operational definitions of the SFPC. Eighteen publications were included in the analysis, with a mean PEDro score of 5.6 (1.5). Overall, 4.99 (1.27) of the 9 operational definitions of the SFPC are trained in exergaming interventions. Exergaming does encourage individuals to stand up (3), lean while standing (4), move upper limbs and turn heads (6) and dual-task while standing (9), to some extent move the body forwards, backwards and sideways (1), and coordinate movements (2) but hardly at all to kick, hop, jump or walk (7), or to force a postural reaction from a physical force to the individual (5) and it does not mimic actual changes in sensory context (8). This is the first review, to our knowledge, that synthesises the literature on movements trained in exergaming interventions with respect to an established theoretical framework for PC. This review could provide useful information for designing exergames with PC outcomes in mind, which could help target specific exergames for multi-factorial training to overcome balance deficits. Some elements of PC are too unsafe to be trained using exergames, such as restricting sensory inputs or applying physical perturbations to an individual to elicit postural responses.

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Movements of older adults during exergaming interventions that are associated with the Systems Framework for Postural Control: A systematic review

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“…This ability to collect data over longer uninterrupted periods presents many advantages over long-term intermittent observations, such as minimizing the effect that temporary changes in subjects' health might have on the overall study. The privacy concerns of having a Kinect camera sensor present in the seniors homes are a documented issue [31][33], however these concerns are alleviated due to the Kinects introduction as a gaming sensor [34] for the FitForAll exergaming platform [28] given the beneficial role of the serious games that the seniors are informed about [35].…”

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“…Kinect was used to monitor the senior's daily activity while the CAC-framework supported the simultaneous communication of the extracted skeleton features, the Clothes Change Detection component [27] and the FitForAll exergaming platform [28].…”

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IoT of active and healthy ageing: cases from indoor location analytics in the wild

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTThis work was supported in part by the UNCAP Horizon 2020 project (grant number 643555), as well as, the business exploitation scheme of the ICT-PSP funded project LLM, namely, LLM Care which is a self-funded initiative at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (www.llmcare.gr). 3 AbstractRecently much research has been conducted on early detection of cognitive and physical status deterioration in elderly adults. Primarily the focus is on gait analysis methodologies exploiting average speed, however this presents an issue when used for context aware applications. Additionally data capture tends to be in short bursts over a long period, allowing for localized temporal factors, such as short term injury, to potentially skew measurements. As such this work collects gait and trajectory IoT data from elderly adults in senior homes ("in the wild") over a sustained period of time (1 year). Density based clustering algorithms are then applied to the data to provide long-term insights into how the high density regions change over time. The data is collected, analyzed and made available by the indoor analytics client utilizing available processing resources and delivers the analytics outcome even when it is hosted in hardware with constrained resources. Promising results are obtained from the long-term study, suggesting that this form of evaluation has strong potential in the analysis of cognitive and physical status deterioration.

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“…Another study by Konstantinidis et al (2014) described the design, implementation and wide pilot deployment of FitForAll, an exergaming platform aimed at promoting physical activity among older adults aged 60 years old and above that will subsequently lead to maintenance or improvement in the health status and quality of life. Based on the features of FitForAll described in the paper, the intervention applied several persuasive principles from three categories of the PSD model, i.e.…”

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Designing a persuasive physical activity application for older workers: understanding end-user perceptions

Mohadis

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Smeaton

2016

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Among the factors known to encourage healthy ageing is routine physical activity, a behaviour that is not common among the older age group. A Persuasive System Design (PSD) model offers guidelines for designing and evaluating systems aimed at reinforcing, changing or shaping underlying human behaviour and attitudes. The objective of this study was to investigate the perceptions of older workers towards persuasive principles of PSD that was integrated into an application specifically designed to encourage physical activity. Ten older workers aged 50 to 64 years with different physical activity levels participated in this study. Using a think-aloud technique, the participants interacted with a physical activity application whilst verbally expressing their perceptions towards the persuasive elements. The results indicated that the older worker participants had positive views towards persuasive design principles that fell under the categories of primary task, dialogue support and credibility support. However, the persuasive principle of the social support category received contradictory views. Further, it was discovered that the personalization of persuasive principles, the credibility of tailored contents and the establishment of a sense of similarity are imperative in the designing of effective persuasive physical activity applications targeting older workers.

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Design, Implementation, and Wide Pilot Deployment of FitForAll: An Easy to use Exergaming Platform Improving Physical Fitness and Life Quality of Senior Citizens

Cited by 119 publications

References 42 publications

Movements of older adults during exergaming interventions that are associated with the Systems Framework for Postural Control: A systematic review

Movements of older adults during exergaming interventions that are associated with the Systems Framework for Postural Control: A systematic review

IoT of active and healthy ageing: cases from indoor location analytics in the wild

Designing a persuasive physical activity application for older workers: understanding end-user perceptions

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