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| Image from: Canadian Exergaming Research Centre |
Exergaming leverages the video game environment familiar to children by adding an element of exercise. Exergames use video screen technologies that require physical participation in contrast to traditional sedentary video games.
“The Canadian Exergaming Research Centre (CERC) features games such as i-Dance (a wireless, multi-player system) Wii Fit and Exerboards. The Centre is a collaboration between the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Kinesiology, Mount Royal College and the Foundations for the Future school. An innovative research project is hoping to discover whether the new generation of ‘exergames’ can really impact on youth fitness, and perhaps help with the growing incidence of obesity among Canadian youth.”
www.ucalgary.ca/exergaming/