Designing an exergaming system for exercise bikes using kinect sensors and Google Earth |
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Authors: | Shih-Yu Huang Jen-Perng Yu Yuan-Kai Wang Jia-Wei Liu |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,Ming Chuan University,Taipei,Taiwan;2.Gui Shan District,Taiwan;3.Department of Information Management,Ming Chuan University,Taipei,Taiwan;4.Department of Electrical Engineering,Fu Jen University,Taipei,Taiwan |
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Abstract: | This paper proposes an Exergaming system for exercise bikes. With the assistance of a Kinect device and the proposed body-movement-detection algorithm, exercise bike users are required to perform correct neck and shoulder movements to control the airplane trajectory in Google Earth. They can take a flying tour in the virtual reality provided by Google Earth while riding an exercise bike. According to the experimental results, 95 % of the users in the experiment considered the proposed Exergaming system to be very entertaining; more than 85 % of the users affirmed that the assigned neck and shoulder movements effectively help stretch the muscles in these body parts; the detection rate of the proposed body-movement algorithm was over 90 %. Therefore, the proposed Exergaming system is a good assisting system for exercise bikes. |
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