Title
An Investigation of the Exergames Experience with Flow State, Enjoyment, and Physical Fitness
Abstract
Exergames enable players to interact with games through body movement. With various positive effects of exergaming such as physical, psychosocial and cognitive benefits, exergames are regarded as a desirable tool for promoting physical education. However, there is little research about exergaming experience with flow state, enjoyment, and physical fitness. In this study, The Exergames Flow State Questionnaire (EFSQ) and the Physical Fitness Self-assessment Questionnaire (PFSAQ) were designed and developed with good reliability (α=0.97; α=0.92). The results of correlation analysis show that more frequent play of exergames and longer use of the exergame consoles may increase the incidence of flow state and enjoyment. Additionally, the frequency of playing exergames is significantly correlated to PFSAQ, indicating that more often the users play the exergames, the more sense of health physical fitness they will have. The findings of this investigation could be used in physical education planning. Meanwhile, EFSQ and PFSAQ can be used as alternative tools to measure flow state and physical fitness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICALT.2012.183
ICALT
Keywords
Field
DocType
exergaming positive effects,physical education planning,exergame,physical fitness,alternative tool,game experience,physical education,frequent play,body movement,flow state,enjoyment,pfsaq,sport,health physical fitness,flow,physical fitness self-assessment questionnaire,exergames experience,interactive systems,exergames flow state questionnaire,exergaming experience,unsupervised learning,computer aided instruction,efsq,computer games,reliability,games,correlation,time frequency analysis
Computer aided instruction,Physical education,Computer science,Psychosocial,Physical fitness,Cognition,Multimedia,Correlation analysis
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1642-2
1
0.38
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu-Ching Lai110.38
Shih-Ting Wang291.89
Jie-Chi Yang335043.91