Home Exercise in a Social Context: Real-Time Experience Sharing Using Avatars

Yasmin Aghajan; Joyca Lacroix; Jingyu Cui; Aart Halteren; Hamid Aghajan

Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. Third International Conference, INTETAIN 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2009. Proceedings

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Home Exercise in a Social Context: Real-Time Experience Sharing Using Avatars

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_3,
    author={Yasmin Aghajan and Joyca Lacroix and Jingyu Cui and Aart Halteren and Hamid Aghajan},
    title={Home Exercise in a Social Context: Real-Time Experience Sharing Using Avatars},
    proceedings={Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. Third International Conference, INTETAIN 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2009. Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={INTETAIN},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={Exercise monitor avatars pose analysis experience sharing social networks user acceptance},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_3}
}

Yasmin Aghajan
Joyca Lacroix
Jingyu Cui
Aart Halteren
Hamid Aghajan
Year: 2012
Home Exercise in a Social Context: Real-Time Experience Sharing Using Avatars
INTETAIN
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_3

Yasmin Aghajan¹, Joyca Lacroix¹, Jingyu Cui², Aart Halteren¹, Hamid Aghajan²

1: Philips Research
2: Stanford University

Abstract

This paper reports on the design of a vision-based exercise monitoring system. The system aims to promote well-being by making exercise sessions enjoyable experiences, either through real-time interaction and instructions proposed to the user, or via experience sharing or group gaming with peers in a virtual community. The use of avatars is explored as means of representation of the user’s exercise movements or appearance, and the system employs user-centric approaches in visual processing, behavior modeling via history data accumulation, and user feedback to learn the preferences. A preliminary survey study has been conducted to explore the avatar preferences in two user groups.

Keywords: Exercise monitor avatars pose analysis experience sharing social networks user acceptance

Published: 2012-05-21

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_3