Embedding a VR Game Studio in a Sedentary Workplace

Yoo, Soojeong; Gough, Phillip; Kay, Judy

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376371

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“…While they caution against replacing traditional physical activities with videogames [ 3 ], we argue that it is a welcome alternative, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is in alignment with Yoo et al [ 38 ] wherein they welcome the substitution of VR games to traditional exercises for people involved in sedentary jobs as it is still a useful source of physical exertion and activity. Additionally, a VR study in respect to leisure sport reported that VR sports game facilitates leisure satisfaction and sustainable engagement [ 39 ].…”

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Promoting Sports Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic via Virtual Reality Games

Hanifah

Ito

Yao

et al. 2022

Occupational Therapy International

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Rationale. Sedentary activities are perpetuated by aging and the COVID-19 pandemic. While demands for video games grow, few studies explored the potential of virtual reality (VR) games to promote sports engagement and health among young adults. Objective. To examine sports engagement and health changes of young adults when utilizing a VR sports game and investigate the relationship between sports engagement and health. Method. This study used a single-group design with 20 participants, aged 19–29 years, with no preexisting health conditions. The VR game “Sports Scramble” was used thrice within a span of one week. Outcomes sought include sports engagement and health, measured through the Sports Engagement Scale (SES) and Short Form 36 (SF-36), respectively. Results. A significant difference ( p < 0.001 ) was found between the pre-posttest scores of the SES. Moreover, a positive trend was observed in terms of health with a significant difference ( p < 0.05 ) between pre-posttest scores of the SF-36’s vitality dimension. There were positive correlations among the dedication and vigor subscales of the SES with the dimensions of health. Conclusion. This study showed the potential of VR sports games in positively influencing sports engagement and health among participants with the vigor and dedication positively influencing health. Future studies may involve the exploration of the effectiveness of VR to promote engagement and health through a randomized controlled trial with a longer timeframe and across various populations.

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Promoting Sports Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic via Virtual Reality Games

Hanifah

Ito

Yao

et al. 2022

Occupational Therapy International

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“…VR multi-dimensional display capability VR technology will go some way to bridging the educational injustice divide, especially in art since a life of leisurely living for the rich produces the qualifications required of an artist better than the poor struggling in poverty. VR content, with its low marginal cost and long-distance delivery, could make even the remote poor feel like they are there for a learning experience that spans geography and time [13][14]. The children of the rich and powerful can travel thousands of miles to the Sistine Chapel to experience and study the Genesis frescoes for themselves, or they can invite the best experts to talk about them, but using VR technology, this experience can be replicated and disseminated indefinitely, giving the children of the poor the opportunity to experience the best second-hand experiences constructed by virtual technology (Fig.…”

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Research and Application of VR in Training and Learning

Wang

2024

HSET

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With the rapid development of VR technology in the past two years, VR education has broken the rigidity and single way of traditional teaching. This paper discusses and analyzes three aspects of VR in the field of training and learning. specifically, the convenience and efficiency of VR in the classroom; an overview of the savings and simplicity of VR skills learning. And a comparative analysis of innovation and breakthroughs in the field of VR art learning. So far, VR technology is still only in the newly developed stage, and there are various problems waiting to be solved, such as expensive, unfriendly to students who wear glasses, etc. But despite certain shortcomings, VR technology has great application prospects in the future. These skills training and learning based on VR are elaborated and analyzed. Finally, the paper summarizes and looks forward to the full text.

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“…While Astrojumper utilized a three-wall stereoscopic projected display, Charoensook et al [9] showed that VR exergames using a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) can also increase players' heart rates during play sessions. More recently, Yoo et al [1] allowed workers in a sedentary workplace to play a range of commercial VR games during work breaks over the duration of eight weeks and measured their exertion through questionnaires and a wearable heart rate monitor. Their results show that the VR games motivated the workers over a longer period of time to be physically active.…”

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“…One way to tackle this problem is to use Virtual Reality (VR) games that encourage physical exercise. The use of VR exercise games (often called exergames) has been shown to increase the motivation to do physical activity for workers in sedentary occupations [1], [2].…”

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Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Virtual Reality Exergames through Experience-driven Procedural Content Generation

Huber,

Mertes,

Rangelova

et al. 2021

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Virtual Reality (VR) games that feature physical activities have been shown to increase players' motivation to do physical exercise. However, for such exercises to have a positive healthcare effect, they have to be repeated several times a week. To maintain player motivation over longer periods of time, games often employ Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) to adapt the game's challenge according to the player's capabilities. For exercise games, this is mostly done by tuning specific in-game parameters like the speed of objects. In this work, we propose to use experience-driven Procedural Content Generation for DDA in VR exercise games by procedurally generating levels that match the player's current capabilities. Not only finetuning specific parameters but creating completely new levels has the potential to decrease repetition over longer time periods and allows for the simultaneous adaptation of the cognitive and physical challenge of the exergame.As a proof-of-concept, we implement an initial prototype in which the player must traverse a maze that includes several exercise rooms, whereby the generation of the maze is realized by a neural network. Passing those exercise rooms requires the player to perform physical activities. To match the player's capabilities, we use Deep Reinforcement Learning to adjust the structure of the maze and to decide which exercise rooms to include in the maze. We evaluate our prototype in an exploratory user study utilizing both biodata and subjective questionnaires.

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Embedding a VR Game Studio in a Sedentary Workplace

Cited by 24 publications

References 18 publications

Promoting Sports Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic via Virtual Reality Games

Promoting Sports Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic via Virtual Reality Games

Research and Application of VR in Training and Learning

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Virtual Reality Exergames through Experience-driven Procedural Content Generation

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