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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by ACM, 2015.
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Exergames are increasingly considered as an exercise instruction modality in health applications. Studies are typically conducted in non-situated contexts and capture short-term effects. We present first results from a medium-scale study conducted over the course of 5 weeks and integrated into a normal rehabilitation program. The study features three groups, comparing manually adjustable exergames with the identical games in adaptive versions and manual physiotherapy interventions without games. The results indicate that the exergames and traditional therapy are comparable regarding measures of competence and enjoyment, while exergames led to significantly higher scores for autonomy, presence, and in a functional reach test. With traditional therapy, scores for tension-pressure and effort-importance were significantly higher. The initial results of the broader study presented in this paper deliver insights regarding motivational aspects of exergames and traditional therapy and point out which motivational aspects could be strengthened in future implementations.
Author(s): Smeddinck J, Herrlich M, Malaka R
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15)
Year of Conference: 2015
Pages: 4143-4146
Online publication date: 18/04/2015
Acceptance date: 01/01/1900
Date deposited: 18/01/2019
Publisher: ACM
URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702598
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702598
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ISBN: 9781450331456