Castañer Balcells, MartaCamerino Foguet, OleguerParés, Narcís, 1966-Landry, Pascal2016-02-242016-02-242011Castañer M, Camerino O, Parés N, Landry P. Fostering body movement in children through an exertion interface as an educational tool. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2011 July;28:236-240. DOI 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.11.046.1877-0428http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25936We present an exertion interface called the Interactive Slide (Soler, Ferrer, Parés, 2009), a large inflatable slide augmented with virtual reality technology that offers the possibility to children to move freely in a large and diverse spatial area. Diversity of motor skills actions that children do while playing were analyzed with observational methodology and sequential analysis through temporal pattern detection (T-patterns) to obtain behavior motor responses. The results reveal that the strategic virtual games of this Interactive Slide stimulate a large number of motor skills and a rich variability of them. Thus, in a pedagogical sense, it optimizes body movement in children while exergaming.application/pdfeng© Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.11.046/nOpen access under CC BY-NC-ND licenseFostering body movement in children through an exertion interface as an educational toolinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.11.046ExergamingMotor skillsTemporal patternsEmbodied Interactioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess