Action games helps to fight against Obesity
October 27, 2006
Nottingham Trent University pursuing a study for a long period, which look that how action games encourage children to do physical activity. According to the researchers the main aim behind this study to design games to motivate children to do exercise.
This study was conducted in Nottingham GameCity at the time of new annual computer games festival. This study was conducted on 40 children of age between 7 and 12 year and also investigate that game affects psychological interests.
Dr. Richard Wood who is running this study said “There are now a number of action-orientated video games on the market for children including Sony's EyeToy and Nintendo's Dancemat". He also added "They promote physical activity amongst players as opposed to traditional videogames which are sedentary".
This study will try to examine whether these games can also be effective for obese children and also determine the level of physical exertion required to care out selected games. For that they interviewed participants and asked him to rate the games in terms of enjoyment.
Dr. Wood said “Once we have the results, we will then develop practical suggestions as to how games can be designed to encourage physical activity in children” and Dr. Dilip Nathan who is consultant pediatrician at Nottingham University’s Hospital said “We may be able to unlock some important findings as to how these games could be developed in the future to promote physical activity”.
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