Abstract
Taiwan has been an aged society since late 2007 and a “Long-term Care Services Act” is passed in 2015, which implicates an imperative to discover the needs for the elderly and provide products or services for the elderly’s physical and mental demands. This research investigates the elderly’s health maintenance and rehabilitation in terms of physical fitness mainly from the professional viewpoint of recreation therapy. This research explores the elderly’s lifestyle and aerobic physical fitness approach (for example, walking, dancing, hiking, cycling, sports or planned exercises) in Taiwan. After conducting interviews to the elderly, physical therapists, and physical fitness trainers, this research has applied the Kinect system and created the 3D animation with physical fitness models. In addition, this research has discussed the applicability and usability of information technology devices, such as Kinect system and related devices, for the elderly in the current highly developed information technology society. Eventually, this research conducts an experiment combining 3D animation models and Kinect motion capture technology for assessing the fitness posture of the elderly, which has shown the potential application based on recreational therapy. However, more usability tests for the system stability and more advanced interactive technology are needed for improving the interactivity.
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