TY - JOUR
T1 - Supporting collective physical activities by interactive floor projection in a special-needs school setting
AU - Oki, Mika
AU - Akizuki, Shuichi
AU - Bourreau, Baptiste
AU - Takahashi, Issey
AU - Aoki, Yoshimitsu
AU - Yamamoto, Junichi
AU - Suzuki, Kenji
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by JST CREST Social Imaging and Social Signals, Japan (No. JPMJCR19A2 ). The authors would like to thank the teachers and students of the special needs school at Otsuka for their participation in the activities and support of the experiments, and also Taku Hachisu, Ph.D., for the valuable comments.
Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by JST CREST Social Imaging and Social Signals, Japan (No. JPMJCR19A2). The authors would like to thank the teachers and students of the special needs school at Otsuka for their participation in the activities and support of the experiments, and also Taku Hachisu, Ph.D. for the valuable comments. All the study's participants were students of Otsuka Special-Needs School, University of Tsukuba, located in Tokyo, Japan. The study took place in the gymnasium of their school where FUTUREGYM was implemented. Data related to the study were collected after approval from the Ethics Review Board of the University of Tsukuba Education Bureau of Laboratory Schools, following all the regulations and recommendations for research with students. The participants and legal guardians signed consent forms to participate in the experiments. The experiments were conducted during the classroom activity under the guidance of teachers and experimenters. We provided the teachers with consent forms and information sheets of the experiments and of WISC-IV tests, which they distributed to legal guardians prior to the work being carried out. In addition, participants were able to withdraw their consent for the data collection at any time without affecting their participation in the activity. When participants did not want to join the session, they were able to tell the teachers and were not forced to participate.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - This paper presents an algorithm to provide floor projection feedback according to the local distance and density of individuals. It is realized by a large-space floor projection system with a feedback function based on human tracking with laser ranging image sensors. The purpose is to support the cognition of spatial–temporal structures of groups of adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs) that are conducting organized physical activity (PA). Observation and evaluation of behavioral changes in adolescents with NDs, when they were active with or without the floor projection based on the proposed algorithm, were conducted to validate its effectiveness. We observed that the proposed algorithm can be implemented in different organized PAs. It had the effect to help individuals in a behavior to keep a close distance to each other as a group rather than to keep the same distance apart from each other while walking.
AB - This paper presents an algorithm to provide floor projection feedback according to the local distance and density of individuals. It is realized by a large-space floor projection system with a feedback function based on human tracking with laser ranging image sensors. The purpose is to support the cognition of spatial–temporal structures of groups of adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs) that are conducting organized physical activity (PA). Observation and evaluation of behavioral changes in adolescents with NDs, when they were active with or without the floor projection based on the proposed algorithm, were conducted to validate its effectiveness. We observed that the proposed algorithm can be implemented in different organized PAs. It had the effect to help individuals in a behavior to keep a close distance to each other as a group rather than to keep the same distance apart from each other while walking.
KW - Behavior change
KW - Collective physical activity
KW - Interactive floor projection
KW - Neurodevelopmental disorders
KW - Robust human tracking
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100392
DO - 10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100392
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115958073
SN - 2212-8689
VL - 32
JO - International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
JF - International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
M1 - 100392
ER -