Children's movement skills when playing active video games

Title: Children's movement skills when playing active video games
Creator: Hulteen, Ryan M.; Johnson, Tara M.; Ridgers, Nicola D.; Mellecker, Robin R.; Barnett, Lisa M.
Relation: Perceptual and Motor Skills Vol. 121, Issue 3, p. 767-790
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/25.10.PMS.121c24x5
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: Active video games (AVGs) may be useful for movement skill practice. This study examined children's skill execution while playing Xbox Kinect^TM and during movement skill assessment. Nineteen children (10 boys, 9 girls; M age = 7.9 yr., SD = 1.4) had their skills assessed before AVG play and then were observed once a week for 6 wk. while playing AVGs for 50 min. While AVG play showed evidence of correct skill performance (at least 30-50% of the time when playing table tennis, tennis, and baseball), nearly all skills were more correctly performed during skill assessment (generally more than 50% of the time). This study may help researchers to better understand the role AVGs could play in enhancing real life movement skills.
Subject: AVGs; movement skills; physical inactivity; schools
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324680
Identifier: uon:25091
Identifier: ISSN:0031-5125
Language: eng
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