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Elsevier, Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, (28), p. 236-240, 2011

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.11.046

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Fostering Body Movement In Children Through An Exertion Interface As An Educational Tool

Journal article published in 2011 by Marta Castañer ORCID, Oleguer Camerino, Narcís Parés, Pascal Landry
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We present an exertion interface called the Interactive Slide (Soler, Ferrer, Parés, 2009), a large inflatable slide augmented with virtual reality technology that offers the possibility to children to move freely in a large and diverse spatial area. Diversity of motor skills actions that children do while playing were analyzed with observational methodology and sequential analysis through temporal pattern detection (T-patterns) to obtain behavior motor responses. The results reveal that the strategic virtual games of this Interactive Slide stimulate a large number of motor skills and a rich variability of them. Thus, in a pedagogical sense, it optimizes body movement in children while exergaming.