Taxonomy of exertion games

Mueller, Florian; Gibbs, Martin; Vetere, Frank

doi:10.1145/1517744.1517772

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“…We decided to study an exertion-based, competitive, non-parallel game where an athlete's performance is highly dependent on how the opponent allows him or her to play [10]. We decided to evaluate the sport of table tennis and a digital counterpart (Wii Table Tennis from the Wii Sports Resort game) [19] because they provide different game interactions.…”

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Understanding handicapping for balancing exertion games

Altimira

Billinghurst

Mueller

2013

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Balancing play can be important for engaging people in games since it allows players with different skills and abilities to play together and still feel challenged. Balancing play in exertion games has mainly been explored by challenging the physical effort. To further our understanding of how to design for more balanced experiences, we extend this prior work by studying the affect on player's score by a score handicap. This gives the less skilled player an initial score advantage. A performance handicap was also studied by asking the most skilled player to play with the non-dominant hand. We studied digital and non-digital table tennis games, which provide different game interactions, as examples of non-parallel, competitive games. Our results show that these different game interactions influenced the impact the different handicaps had on player's scores. Therefore, we suggest the game interaction is a key element to understand the suitability of score and performance balancing methods.

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Understanding handicapping for balancing exertion games

Altimira

Billinghurst

Mueller

2013

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Exertion games, exercise games or exergames, are games in which the player must exercise in order to play the game [47]. Exertion games are often designed as motivational systems to encourage people to exercise, and thus to improve their health.…”

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Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature

Marshall

Linehan

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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HCI often requires scholars to build upon research from fields outside their expertise, creating the risk that foundational work is misunderstood and misrepresented. The prevailing goal of "exergames" research towards ameliorating obesity appears to be built on just such a misunderstanding of health research. In this paper, we analyse all citations to a single influential study, which has been extensively cited to justify research on exergames. We categorise the 375 citations based on whether they represent the findings of that study accurately or inaccurately. Our findings suggest that 69% of exergames papers citing this study misrepresent the findings, demonstrating a systematic failure of scholarship in exergames research. We argue that exergaming research should cease focusing on games as treatment for obesity, and that HCI publications should demand more critical and scholarly engagement with research from outside HCI.

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“…The first author of this paper was part of an international research collaboration with the Exertion Games Lab (XGL) at RMIT University, Australia. That research group was designing and studying computing technology games that encourage vigorous physical activity resulting in physical fatigue, as usually happens with real-world sports (Mueller, Gibbs, & Vetere, 2008). These types of games have been called exergames (Sinclair, Hingston, & Masek, 2007) and exertion games (Mueller, Agamanolis, & Picard, 2003).…”

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“…Such games provide a number of advantages, from obvious physical rewards to social (Mueller et al, 2008) and cognitive benefits (Gao & Mandryk, 2012). These perks have been associated with vigorous physical activity (Mueller et al, 2003) and the "casual" aspect of these games that, according to Gao and Mandryk (2011, p. 36), motivate players "to exercise at a moderate intensity for short periods of play" and provide benefits associated with frequent bursts of moderate-intensity activity (Gao & Mandryk, 2011.…”

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2016

Human Technology

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Human Technology is an interdisciplinary, scholarly journal publishing innovative, peer-reviewed articles exploring the issues and challenges within human-technology interaction and the human role in all areas of our ICT-infused societies.Human Technology, published by the Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, is distributed without a charge online. ISSN: 1795-6889 www.humantechnology.jyu.fi Volume 12(2), November 2016, 103-104 103From the Publisher CHANGE IN HUMAN TECHNOLOGY'S PUBLISHER: CONTINUED FOCUS ON OPEN ACCESS HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHThe Human Technology journal will begin a new chapter in its publishing life on January 1, 2017. On that date, the responsibility for publishing the journal will transfer to the new Open Science Center at the University of Jyväskylä, an organization currently in development in which one division will oversee the ongoing support of open access publishing at the university. This change is necessitated by the university's decision to close the Agora Center, the interdisciplinary research unit that initiated and supported the journal from its inception. Despite the Agora Center's focus on the phenomena in contemporary society where humans were impacted or facilitated by technology, its international networks of like-minded colleagues, and its commitment to quality interdisciplinary research, the research unit has been deemed unnecessary in the new university structure. As the university's rector indicated in his public announcement in April 2016, it is his belief that this research should be part of the mission of every faculty of the university, and thus the university as a whole. The rector also indicated that the international, open access journal Human Technology was valuable not only to the university but to the scientific community. We are pleased that the current editor in chief, Dr. Pertti Hurme, has agreed to extend his editorship until we bring in a new editor in chief next year. Our long-serving managing editor, Barbara Crawford, M.A., also will continue with the journal. Our international editorial board also will remain active in their work in advancing the mission of the journal. We do not anticipate that the daily operations of the journal will be affected, and, we hope, will be improved by the journal's inclusion in the publications area of the Open Science Center. We are currently negotiating with the administration of the Open Science Center to establish an interdisciplinary publisher's board to maintain and enhance the scientific expertise so essential for a growing journal. We are confident that this will be achieved and the journal can continue to reach new audiences as authors and readers and to continue to advance research in this essential field of human-technology.At this time, I would like to publically acknowledge the long-term expertise and guidance of Dr. Päivi Fadjukoff, currently the director of planning and development for the Agora Center, who has wisely and graciously overseen the role of the publisher in these last 13 years of our jour...

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Taxonomy of exertion games

Cited by 146 publications

References 13 publications

Understanding handicapping for balancing exertion games

Understanding handicapping for balancing exertion games

Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature

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