Publications by authors named "Thomas Tregel"
Article Synopsis
- Research shows a clear link between physical activity and health, but fitness levels in Western countries are below recommended standards.
- Exergaming, or engaging in serious video games that encourage physical exercise, is highlighted as a potential tool to boost individual activity levels.
- A review of 343 studies from 2015 to 2023 found 67 relevant studies that focused on sensor technology in exergaming, revealing that heart rate is the main indicator of efficacy, while the Microsoft Kinect is widely used for motion sensing, although the sensors for exercise and evaluation often differ.
Background: Asking learners manually authored questions about their readings improves their text comprehension. Yet, not all reading materials comprise sufficiently many questions and many informal reading materials do not contain any. Therefore, automatic question generation has great potential in education as it may alleviate the lack of questions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The goal of this article is to present and to evaluate a sensor-based functional performance monitoring system. The system consists of an array of Wii Balance Boards (WBB) and an exergame that estimates whether the player can maintain physical independence, comparing the results with the 30 s Chair-Stand Test (30CST).
Methods: Sixteen participants recruited at a nursing home performed the 30CST and then played the exergame described here as often as desired during a period of 2 weeks.
Objective: The goal of this contribution is to gather and to critically analyze recent evidence regarding the potential of exergaming for Parkinson's disease (PD) rehabilitation and to provide an up-to-date analysis of the current state of studies on exergame-based therapy in PD patients.
Methods: We performed our search based on the conclusions of a previous systematic review published in 2014. Inclusion criteria were articles published in the indexed databases Pubmed, Scopus, Sciencedirect, IEEE and Cochrane published since January 1, 2014.