2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
How Computer Games Can Improve Your Health and Fitness
verfasst von : Rainer Malaka
Erschienen in: Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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Serious games became an object of research and development in the last decade. Using computer game technology for serious applications can be very beneficial for a variety of applications. In particular when it is about motivating people through gaming mechanisms, there is a great potential to use gaming technology and the psychological mechanisms that attract people to games for making them do activities that would otherwise either be not done or at least with much less enthusiasm. One such application is personal fitness. So called
exergames
aim at wrapping physical exercises into computer games. They range from rehabilitation programs to workout programs mimicking a personal trainer.