NEAT-o-games: Ubiquitous activity-based gaming

Yuichi Fujiki; Konstantinos Kazakos; Colin Puri; Ioannis Pavlidis; Justin Starren; James Levine

doi:10.1145/1240866.1241009

NEAT-o-games: Ubiquitous activity-based gaming

Yuichi Fujiki^*, Konstantinos Kazakos, Colin Puri, Ioannis Pavlidis, Justin Starren, James Levine

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Preventive Medicine

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Abstract

The role of Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenes is (NEAT) has become a key component of obesity research, prevention, and treatment. This paper describes research that aims to suppress the obesity epidemic by infusing NEAT in the sedentary lifestyle of an average person. The method combines unobtrusive physiologic sensing and novel Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technologies. It supports a strong motivational framework based on ubiquitous computer gaming, appealing enough to likely change the behavior of "couch potatoes" on their own volition. This novel generation of computer games (NEAT-o-games) is fueled by activity data recorded by small wearable sensors. Data from the sensors are logged wirelessly to a Personal Digital Assistant/Cell Phone (PDA), which acts as the central computing unit of the system. Algorithmic software processes these data and computes the energy expenditure of the user in real-time. The paper presents a prototype implementation of NEAT-o-games and initial evaluation results.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2369-2374
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	1595936424, 9781595936424
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241009
State	Published - 2007
Event	25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Apr 28 2007 → May 3 2007

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Other	25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	4/28/07 → 5/3/07

Keywords

Computer game
Energy expenditure
Ubiquitous computing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Fujiki, Y., Kazakos, K., Puri, C., Pavlidis, I., Starren, J., & Levine, J. (2007). NEAT-o-games: Ubiquitous activity-based gaming. In SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts (pp. 2369-2374). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241009

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Fujiki, Y, Kazakos, K, Puri, C, Pavlidis, I, Starren, J & Levine, J 2007, NEAT-o-games: Ubiquitous activity-based gaming. in SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2369-2374, 25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, United States, 4/28/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241009

NEAT-o-games : Ubiquitous activity-based gaming. / Fujiki, Yuichi; Kazakos, Konstantinos; Puri, Colin et al.

SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts. Association for Computing Machinery, 2007. p. 2369-2374 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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