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. 2012 Spring;45(1):211-5.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-211.

The effects of exergaming on physical activity in a third-grade physical education class

Rachel K Shayne  1 , Victoria A Fogel, Raymond G Miltenberger, Shannon Koehler
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The effects of exergaming on physical activity in a third-grade physical education class

Rachel K Shayne et al. J Appl Behav Anal. 2012 Spring.

Abstract

We compared the effects of exergaming and traditional physical education on physical activity among 4 active children who were not overweight and who had experience with the exergaming activities prior to the study. Results showed that exergaming produced substantially higher percentages of physical activity and opportunity to engage in physical activity. In addition, an evaluation of the exergaming equipment showed that exergaming stations were associated with differential levels of physical activity across participants.

Keywords: exercise; exergaming; interactive fitness; physical activity; physical education.

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The left panel shows the percentage of session time with physical activity during the exergaming condition (E), the traditional physical education condition (PE), and the exergaming condition in which a machine was not functioning properly (E*); the right panel shows the percentage of session time with the opportunity to engage in physical activity across sessions during each condition.
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