Hop! To Happiness & Health (exergame)

Although this is an older installation, it reminds me of the simple games we all played when we were growing up. It's interesting to play these games with students now because they haven't grown up playing them. Hop! was created by Tinker for the 2009 Kinetic Art Festival. Can simple games like Hop! inspire more movement and social interactions?  Can more than one person play on it a time?  It sort of reminds me of Modular Interactive Tiles (formerly Therapy Tiles) from Henrik Lund and Lightspace Play Floor & Wall.

the installation consists of a vertical light display that reflects and responds to play happening on a chalked-out hopscotch game on the ground. users play the game as usual and can watch as their actions on the ground are translated onto the colourful display. [Via Gizmodo]

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UFO Balance Catcher (exergame)

One of the most frustrating parts of those crane games you see all over the place offering you a "chance" to win a DS, stuffed toy, or video game is that the crane fingers couldn't hold a cotton ball. Well if you thought it was hard to win with a regular hand-controller, now try doing it with a Balance Board (a la Wii) on Sega's crane redemption game UFO Balance Catcher. [Via Kotaku, StartPlayRest]

Behavioral Challenges in the Management of Childhood Diabetes - William Clarke, M.D - NIH Virtual Reality Workshop

  
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Here is Dr. William Clarke presentation Behavioral Challenges in the Management of Childhood Diabetes at the Workshop on Virtual Reality Technologies for Research and Education in Bethesda, MD. Also keep updated by following my tweets or the hashtag #nihvrobesdiab

 

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Health Interventions Research Using VR (Exergaming) by Dr. Ernie Medina - NIH Virtual Reality Workshop

  
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Here is Dr. Ernie Medina's Health Interventions Research Using VR - at the Workshop on Virtual Reality Technologies for Research and Education in Bethesda, MD. Also keep updated by following my tweets or the hashtag #nihvrobesdiab

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Ben Sawyer "Games for Health" presi at NIH Virtual Reality Workshop

  
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Here is Ben Sawyer's presentation "Games for Health" at the Workshop on Virtual Reality Technologies for Research and Education in Bethesda, MD. Ben is keeping the exergaming term alive and well in his presentations. I've also included Ben's recent Google Talk presentation. Also keep updated by following my tweets or the hashtag #nihvrobesdiab

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Virtually Creating the Mindless Habit - Dr. Brian Wansink at NIH Virtual Reality Workshop

  
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Here is Dr. Brian Wansink's (Cornell) Virtually Creating the Mindless Habit presentation at the Workshop on Virtual Reality Technologies for Research and Education in Bethesda, MD. Also keep updated by following my tweets or the hashtag #nihvrobesdiab

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