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Designing an exergaming system for exercise bikes using kinect sensors and Google Earth

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This paper proposes an Exergaming system for exercise bikes. With the assistance of a Kinect device and the proposed body-movement-detection algorithm, exercise bike users are required to perform correct neck and shoulder movements to control the airplane trajectory in Google Earth. They can take a flying tour in the virtual reality provided by Google Earth while riding an exercise bike. According to the experimental results, 95 % of the users in the experiment considered the proposed Exergaming system to be very entertaining; more than 85 % of the users affirmed that the assigned neck and shoulder movements effectively help stretch the muscles in these body parts; the detection rate of the proposed body-movement algorithm was over 90 %. Therefore, the proposed Exergaming system is a good assisting system for exercise bikes.

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This research is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under the grant of MOST 103-2221-E-130 -018.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shih-Yu Huang & Jia-Wei Liu

  2. Taoyuan: 5 De Ming Rd., Gui Shan District, Taoyuan County, 333, Taiwan

    Shih-Yu Huang

  3. Department of Information Management, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jen-Perng Yu

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yuan-Kai Wang

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Huang, SY., Yu, JP., Wang, YK. et al. Designing an exergaming system for exercise bikes using kinect sensors and Google Earth. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 12281–12314 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3641-6

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