I Don’t like Gaming, It Leads to a Pressure to Perform: Older Adults Refused Gaming Elements in a Digital Home-based Physical Training Programme in Two Qualitative Studies

Claudia Oppenauer-Meerskraut, Johannes Kropf, Anna Bösendorfer, Matthias Gira, Mario Heller, Kerstin Lampel, Andreas Kumpf, Tanja Stamm

2017

Abstract

Background: Physical activity in older adults is an important protective factor for preventing morbidity and mortality and increases well-being and independent living. Within the so-called “Train&Win” project, a physical home training program with gaming elements based on the Microsoft Kinect sensor and an avatar will be developed. Method: Two user studies using a qualitative approach were conducted in order to guarantee a user-centered design: a focus group with 14 participants and a mock-up study with seven participants. Results: Contrary to published literature and our expectations, a majority of participants (8/14; 57%) explicitly refused gaming elements, such as competitions between the participants or motivational design inputs for process feedback. Thus, the training program should be related to the physical training experiences of the participants which were mainly sports and be “realistic” in terms of the presentation and interaction with the avatar. Both studies showed the necessity for an individually designed training, including typical non-technology aspects of a physical training. Conclusion: The results stress the importance of considering diverse attitudes, technology experiences and needs of older adults. For a high user acceptance, the training has to be individually adapted and consider more traditional non-technology training elements than exergaming issues.

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Oppenauer-Meerskraut C., Kropf J., Bösendorfer A., Gira M., Heller M., Lampel K., Kumpf A. and Stamm T. (2017). I Don’t like Gaming, It Leads to a Pressure to Perform: Older Adults Refused Gaming Elements in a Digital Home-based Physical Training Programme in Two Qualitative Studies.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA, ISBN 978-989-758-267-7, pages 178-184. DOI: 10.5220/0006516901780184


in Bibtex Style

@conference{chira17,
author={Claudia Oppenauer-Meerskraut and Johannes Kropf and Anna Bösendorfer and Matthias Gira and Mario Heller and Kerstin Lampel and Andreas Kumpf and Tanja Stamm},
title={I Don’t like Gaming, It Leads to a Pressure to Perform: Older Adults Refused Gaming Elements in a Digital Home-based Physical Training Programme in Two Qualitative Studies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,},
year={2017},
pages={178-184},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006516901780184},
isbn={978-989-758-267-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,
TI - I Don’t like Gaming, It Leads to a Pressure to Perform: Older Adults Refused Gaming Elements in a Digital Home-based Physical Training Programme in Two Qualitative Studies
SN - 978-989-758-267-7
AU - Oppenauer-Meerskraut C.
AU - Kropf J.
AU - Bösendorfer A.
AU - Gira M.
AU - Heller M.
AU - Lampel K.
AU - Kumpf A.
AU - Stamm T.
PY - 2017
SP - 178
EP - 184
DO - 10.5220/0006516901780184