Motivating people to perform better in exergames: Collaboration vs. competition in virtual environments

Nunes, Mateus Bisotto; Nedel, Luciana; Roesler, Valter

doi:10.1109/vr.2013.6549389

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“…The observed results in the VR condition may thus reflect one or a combination of these two factors. Nunes et al [ 41 ] had participants run in a VR environment either alone or with an avatar that was either the participants own prior performance, a superior adversary, or an adversary chosen by the participant. Running with the avatar was found to be more motivating and result in higher perceived exertion and performance.…”

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Affective and Attentional States When Running in a Virtual Reality Environment

Neumann

Moffitt

2018

Sports

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Engaging in physical exercise in a virtual reality (VR) environment has been reported to improve physical effort and affective states. However, these conclusions might be influenced by experimental design factors, such as comparing VR environments against a non-VR environment without actively controlling for the presence of visual input in non-VR conditions. The present study addressed this issue to examine affective and attentional states in a virtual running task. Participants (n = 40), completed a 21 min run on a treadmill at 70% of Vmax. One group of participants ran in a computer-generated VR environment that included other virtual runners while another group ran while viewing neutral images. Participants in both conditions showed a pattern of reduced positive affect and increased tension during the run with a return to high positive affect after the run. In the VR condition, higher levels of immersive tendencies and attention/absorption in the virtual environment were associated with more positive affect after the run. In addition, participants in the VR condition focused attention more on external task-relevant stimuli and less to internal states than participants in the neutral images condition. However, the neutral images condition produced less negative affect and more enjoyment after the run than the VR condition. The finding suggest that the effects of exercising in a VR environment will depend on individual difference factors (e.g., attention/absorption in the virtual world) but it may not always be better than distracting attention away from exercise-related cues.

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Affective and Attentional States When Running in a Virtual Reality Environment

Neumann

Moffitt

2018

Sports

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“…This is consistent with the lack of a training partner being cited as a barrier to regular exercise (Weinberg & Gould, 2015). Researchers have included other individuals in the VR environment for the aerobic exercise tasks of cycling (Anderson-Hanley et al, 2011;Snyder, Anderson-Hanley, & Arciero, 2012), rowing (Hoffman et al, 2014), and running (Nunes et al, 2014). The effect of a competitor in the VR environment has been examined in several studies and has shown to produce performance enhancement, particularly for those who report being more competitive (Anderson-Hanley et al, 2011;Nunes et al, 2014;Snyder et al, 2012).…”

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The effects of the presence of others during a rowing exercise in a virtual reality environment

Murray

Neumann

Moffitt

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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“…Since the main focus of this research is to investigate the primary motivation behind competitive versus single player exergames for fitness, we chose to adapt a methodology described in [12]. We applied a popular physical stress test called Cooper Fitness Test [5] which grades participants performance based on how far they ran on a fixed amount of time.…”

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Motivating people to perform better in exergames

Nunes

Nedel

Roesler

2014

Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Repetitive indoor exercises as running on a treadmill or cycling on an exercise bike use to be tedious, meanwhile immersive virtual environments can bring a greater incentive especially when combined with other sources of motivation such as competition. In this work we introduce Running Wheel, an exergame with both single player and competitive modes with real time capture of heartbeat rhythm and speed of the treadmill. Two hypotheses were tested: (a) there is difference between users that ran with the competitive mode versus the single player mode; and (b) there is difference in performance depending on the kind of competitor picked. We evaluated the system with 12 volunteers which performed at least 6 jogging sessions. Results show that participants got strongly motivated and most of them tried to overcome their limitations and overtake others which in turn led to more effort, perceived by an increase in heartbeat rhythm.

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Motivating people to perform better in exergames: Collaboration vs. competition in virtual environments

Cited by 11 publications

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Affective and Attentional States When Running in a Virtual Reality Environment

Affective and Attentional States When Running in a Virtual Reality Environment

The effects of the presence of others during a rowing exercise in a virtual reality environment

Motivating people to perform better in exergames

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