Abstract
Overweight and obesity is a situation where a person has stacked too much fat that might affect negatively his/her health. Many people skip doing exercises due to several facts related to the encouragement, health-awareness, and time ar-rangement. Diverse aerobic video games have been proposed to help users in do-ing exercises. However, we observe some limitations in existing games. For in-stance, they don’t give correct scores while wearing Arabic traditional suits, they don’t consider showing immersive realistic scenes, and they don’t stimulate users to do exercises and keeping them encouraged to play more. We propose in this paper an aerobic video game that displays real scenes of aerobic coaches and keeps the user notified about doing exercises. It is a kind of serious games that allows users to learn aerobic movements and practice with aerobic coaches. It contains several exercises in which each can be played on normal screen or in fully immersive virtual reality (VR). While the user is playing, he/she can see the playing score with the estimated amount of burned calories. It stores the time when the user plays to remind him/her about doing exercises again. The profound user studies demonstrated the usability and effectiveness of the proposed game.
Highlights
Sport and physical activities are important for all individuals
During the design process of our game, we met nutritionists who work at Hamad Medical Corporation1 (HMC)
We presented an aerobic video entertainment game that shows real videos of aerobic coaches
Summary
Sport and physical activities are important for all individuals. A systematic time of doing physical exercises assist an individual to stay fit and healthy. The WHO highlights on the affirmative consequences of doing these exercises such as decreasing the cases of strokes, fewer cases of coronary heart disease, fewer rate of mortality, and a synoptic health improvement [2]. Besides these advantages, it is predominately not easy for individuals to preserve the routine of doing physical activities due to several reasons. Dishman discusses the practical outcomes that doctors and patients have on ameliorating individuals’ motivation to do physical exercises by having social interaction [4] In this context, a social sport mobile based application was proposed by Higgins [5]. We attempt to solve the following limitations: 1. Correct scoring while wearing Arabic traditional suits: Existing video games; like [10], [1], and others; do not consider hidden parts of the person who is wearing traditional suits, resulting incorrect scoring results
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