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Experiences from long-term exergaming with elderly

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AcademicMindTrek '14: Proceedings of the 18th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Media Business, Management, Content & Services

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Physical activity is important at all ages, and for the oldest it is also essential to stay fit to manage daily life. Exergames can make physical activity fun and motivational, and we see that senior centres and retirement homes start offering exergames to seniors. We wanted to find out whether seniors will keep on playing over time and what motivates them to play on. In a five month study we found that seniors still enjoy playing given that they have games that they enjoy, and that they ask for new challenges and new games when they master the basic gameplay.

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Experiences from long-term exergaming with elderly
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