Authors: KueiFang Hsiao
Publish Date: 2012/01/11
Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 407-421
Abstract
Excessive use of non physical entertainments and lack of adequate indoors physical activities in conjunction with pressure from parents for a higher academic performance is creating serious health concerns amongst young students throughout the world This problem is more sever in industrial societies such as Taiwan with warnings from the government In order to solve this acute problem we propose a better use of computer technology in form of integrating the augmented reality AR with the regular educational process where a newly designed ARFitness system combines physical exercises with academic lessons and associated tests The new combined learning environment implements four standard physical fitness training schemes with cognitive learning in five categories of physical education PE knowledge including ‘Cardiopulmonary Endurance’ ‘Flexibility’ ‘Explosiveness’ ‘Muscular Endurance’ and ‘Sport Injury’ to test the new systemThis study is supported by the National Science Council Taiwan under contract numbers NSC 1002511S130003MY2 This research work has benefitted from Professor Habib F Rashvand for his insightful discussions and valuable suggestions Professor SY Huang for his technical support the PE specialist Dr KB Kuo and the AR research team in MingChuan University Taiwan
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