Towards ergonomie exergaming

This paper presents a framework for assessing players' health during full-body motion gameplay. Recently, health promotion through the means of exergaming is flourishing. However, little attention has been given on the risk of sustaining injuries caused by unhealthy exercising postures. Mechanisms for monitoring of unhealthy postures and measuring of the amount of body movements are added into UKI, a middleware that allows users to play any games by using body motions as inputs. Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA), an ergonomic tool, is used to systematically evaluate the whole body postural musculoskeletal disorders and risks associated with gameplay. Furthermore, visualization methods for generating real-time feedback and useful health reports are described.