Tour de Tune - Auditory-game-motor Synchronisation in Exergames

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dc.contributor.authorFinlayson, Jennaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPeterson, Jamieen_US
dc.contributor.authorFree, Joshuaen_US
dc.contributor.authorLo, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorShaw, Lindsay A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLutteroth, Christofen_US
dc.contributor.authorWünsche, Burkhard C.en_US
dc.contributor.editorRobert W. Lindeman and Gerd Bruder and Daisuke Iwaien_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-21T15:42:39Z
dc.date.available2017-11-21T15:42:39Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractExergaming has been heralded as a promising approach to increase physical activity in hard-to-reach populations such as sedentary young adults. By combining physical activity with entertainment, researchers and developers hope that the excitement and immersion provided by a computer game will result in increased motivation and dissociation from the discomfort of physical exercise. A different approach to improve physical activity is the use of music. Music, in particular if synchronised with the rhythm of exercise, has been shown to increase performance and decrease the amount of perceived effort for the same performance. So far little research has been done on the combined effect of music and gameplay in exergaming. In this paper we investigate the effect of game-music synchronisation for an immersive exergame. We present a simple yet effective music analysis algorithm, and a novel exergame enabling synchronisation of gameplay with the music's intensity. Our results indicate that our exergame significantly increases enjoyment and motivation compared to music alone. It slightly increases performance, but also increases perceived effort. We did not find any significant differences between gameplay synchronised and not synchronised with the music. Our results confirm the positive effects of music while exercising, but suggest that gameplay might have a bigger effect on exergame effectiveness, and more research on the interaction between gameplay and music needs to be done.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersBeyond Visuals
dc.description.seriesinformationICAT-EGVE 2017 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/egve.20171335
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-03868-038-3
dc.identifier.issn1727-530X
dc.identifier.pages29-36
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20171335
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/egve20171335
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectVirtual reality
dc.subjectHuman
dc.subjectcentered computing
dc.subjectVirtual reality
dc.subjectApplied computing
dc.subjectComputer games
dc.subjectHealth informatics
dc.subjectSound and music computing
dc.titleTour de Tune - Auditory-game-motor Synchronisation in Exergamesen_US
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