StepKinnection: A Fall Prevention Game Mindfully Designed for the Elderly

Garcia, JA; Felix Navarro, K

StepKinnection: A Fall Prevention Game Mindfully Designed for the Elderly

Garcia, JA

Felix Navarro, K

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2015, 214 pp. 43 - 49
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Garcia, JA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5718-1605	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Felix Navarro, K	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2015, 214 pp. 43 - 49	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781614995579	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0926-9630	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37780
dc.description.abstract	© 2015 The authors and IOS Press. This paper presents the StepKinnection game, a Kinect-driven stepping game for the elderly that delivers stepping exercises to train specific cognitive and physical abilities associated with falls. This system combines a set of suitable age-related features, meaningful exercise routines and an embedded clinical test for fall risk assessment. The combination of these three aspects makes the game potentially useful in practice as the game is appealing to the elderly cohort, trains one of the most important abilities to prevent falls and at the same time allows for a continuous assessment of health outcomes; characteristics not available in the literature nor in current commercial games.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.3233/978-1-61499-558-6-43	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Medical Informatics	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Exercise Therapy	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Self Care	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Geriatric Assessment	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Equipment Design	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Equipment Failure Analysis	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Cognitive Therapy	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Accidental Falls	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Video Games	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	User-Computer Interface	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Aged	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Aged, 80 and over	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Female	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Male	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Mobile Applications	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Physical Conditioning, Human	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy	en_US
dc.title	StepKinnection: A Fall Prevention Game Mindfully Designed for the Elderly	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	214	en_US
utslib.for	0807 Library and Information Studies	en_US
utslib.for	080602 Computer-Human Interaction	en_US
utslib.for	1117 Public Health and Health Services	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Electrical and Data Engineering
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - INEXT - Innovation in IT Services and Applications
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - PERSWADE - Centre on Persuasive Systems for Wise Adaptive Living
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	214	en_US

Abstract:

© 2015 The authors and IOS Press. This paper presents the StepKinnection game, a Kinect-driven stepping game for the elderly that delivers stepping exercises to train specific cognitive and physical abilities associated with falls. This system combines a set of suitable age-related features, meaningful exercise routines and an embedded clinical test for fall risk assessment. The combination of these three aspects makes the game potentially useful in practice as the game is appealing to the elderly cohort, trains one of the most important abilities to prevent falls and at the same time allows for a continuous assessment of health outcomes; characteristics not available in the literature nor in current commercial games.

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