📝 Description

A Kinect-based step training game designed to help elderly users reduce fall risk while providing measurable performance data. This was work done by Dr Jaime Garcia, a PhD student at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Jaime is now an Associate Professor at UTS!

👥 Team

Jaime A. Garcia, Karla Felix Navarro, Yusuf Pisan, Chek Tien Tan

🏆 Outputs

  • Garcia, J. A., Pisan, Y., Tan, C. T., & Navarro, K. F. (2014). Assessing the Kinect’s Capabilities to Perform a Time-Based Clinical Test for Fall Risk Assessment in Older People. In Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014 (pp. 100–107). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45212-7_13

  • Garcia, J. A., Pisan, Y., Tan, C. T., & Navarro, K. F. (2014). Step Kinnection: A Hybrid Clinical Test for Fall Risk Assessment in Older Adults. In CHI ‘14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 471–474). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2574808

  • Garcia, J. A. (2018). Assessing the Validity of In-Game Stepping Performance Data from a Kinect-Based Fall Prevention Exergame. In 2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH.2018.8401317

💡 Keywords

Exergame, Elderly, Kinect, Fall Risk, Performance Data