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Fostering Body Movement In Children Through An Exertion Interface As An Educational Tool

Year: 2011

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We present an exertion interface called the Interactive Slide (Soler, Ferrer, Parés, 2009), a large inflatable slide augmented with virtual reality technology that offers the possibility to children to move freely in a large and diverse spatial area. Diversity of motor skills actions that children do while playing were analyzed with observational methodology and sequential analysis through temporal pattern detection (T-patterns) to obtain behavior motor responses. The results reveal that the strategic virtual games of this Interactive Slide stimulate a large number of motor skills and a rich variability of them. Thus, in a pedagogical sense, it optimizes body movement in children while exergaming.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.11.046

Authors: Marta Castañer, Oleguer Camerino, Narcís Parés, Pascal Landry

Institutions: Universitat de Lleida, Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Language: English

Topic: Children's Physical and Motor Development

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación