Wii-like boxing game designed to get pub-goers active

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The local pub might not seem like the most obvious location to try and improve the health of middle-aged men but that’s just the task researchers in the U.K. have set themselves. In a novel approach to get unfit men active, the researchers have devised an ‘exergaming’ system targeted at sedentary middle-aged men on Teesside in the North East of England. The plan is to put the system into workingmen’s clubs and get the men to take part in virtual boxing matches with a computer-generated opponent. .. Continue Reading Wii-like boxing game designed to get pub-goers active

Tags: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Exercise, Fitness, Health, Motion, Video Games, Virtual

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