Comments for Exergaming Australia

Comment on Fullbody Exergaming Exertion by Brett

Brett — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:42:57 +0000

It’s an unbelievable workout and you really do feel part of the game! This workout requires minimal space and nothing other than consistent lighting. Be careful, these workouts are very addictive if your the competitive type as well.

Comment on Fullbody Exergaming Exertion by Travis Smith

Travis Smith — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:43:56 +0000

Wow pretty cool, I’m all about home fitness routine but this is on a whole superior level! I mean like working in like a game with actually working out, almost makes it not like “working” ya know? Keep up the hi-tech workout stuff.

Travis

Comment on Exergaming in Australia? by Brett

Brett — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:54:04 +0000

Hi Floyd. Thank you so much for contacting me back. I’m trying to access as many likeminded Aussies as possible with the idea of pooling our collective info to improve our ventures here in Oz. By the way, did we have some correspondance sometime ago, early 2008 perhaps? I certainly remember corresponding with someone from exertioninterfaces? My email has been “misplaced” so I cant search back…just curious.

Comment on Exergaming in Australia? by Floyd

Floyd — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:44:39 +0000

Hi,

I am in Melbourne, researching exertion games over a distance, and am associated with Distance Lab in Scotland, whom you mentioned. My research work from a computer interface perspective is at http://exertioninterfaces.com
I am in Melbourne, at the University of Melbourne, shoot me an email if you want to catch up.
Cheers,
Floyd

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TwitFitter — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:15:53 +0000

Thanks for joining!

Comment on Exergaming in Australia? by Brett

Brett — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:15:48 +0000

Thanks Richard and thanks again for the RT twitter! I checked out your Oz representation by the way. Nice to see the morning show pick it up, has there been anymore media coverage since ? I would love to meet up with local exergaming aficionados, so I’ll take your advice and start connecting up in the ‘Twitterverse’

Comment on Exergaming in Australia? by Richard

Richard — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:19:40 +0000

Hi Brett!

Apologies for not writing sooner, things have been rather busy of late! Do not worry; exergaming IS happening in Australia!

Take a look at http://www.gamercize.net/aus.htm – you’ll see not only that Gamercize has reached Australia, but there’s a lot going on. One great event was the demonstration of Gamercize and Wii Fit on the Today show under fitness gadgets.

Outside of the home exergaming market, there are several trails going on with organisations/school districts etc and some research on skills development too!

There are several exergaming evangelists down under, most of them on Twitter, follow @ActiveGamer and I’ll give you the introductions in the twitterverse!

Cheers!
Richard Coshott
CEO and Founder
Gamercize

Comment on Exergaming in Australia? by Brett

Brett — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:07:45 +0000

Thanks Ernie. Much of what I and Exergaming Finland have done and continue to do, is contained in the ‘About Brett’ and ‘Our Direction’ tabs. If you can tolerate my procrastination, then have a read, it should ‘eventually’ shed some light on our goings on.
I’ve followed you and Extrainmentzone for years now, and I would love to congratulate you and your team on the direction your headed, bravo! I have to contact you for more info on the list serve. I have a little more time of late to see what the ‘rest of the world’ is up to. I’m particularly interested to know what’s happening locally as well, but it doesn’t seem there is much if anything happening in Australia, sadly!

Regards, Brett.

Comment on Exergaming in Australia? by Ernie

Ernie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:47:42 +0000

Greetings mate! Nice blog! Are you connected in with the rest of the exergaming world and network? We have a pretty good network of exergamers–video gamers, researchers, clinicians, academics, etc.

How are things there in Australia as far as exergaming is concerned? What is the scene like in the tech/video game world there? What about the medical/healthcare scene? Are they looking at exergaming as a credible intervention?

Fortunately, things continue to grow here in the States. The largest private foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is funding another round of research to the tune of $2M. Healthcare is really opening up to exergaming. At last year’s Games for Health conference, the major sponsor was not a video game or tech company, but an insurance company–Humana!

So we continue to push the envelope here in the States and Europe to get exergaming at the forefront of healthcare, at least from my end of things. Next week, I’m speaking at a healthcare conference on obesity and diabetes, showing how exergaming is the newest intervention.

We look forward to you and your exergaming colleagues to join us in the growing exergaming universe. We have a great list serve, and several yahoogroups, face book groups and various networks where we communicate. Feel free to join us!

You can see more about me on my blog (though I haven’t updated it recently–need to get on that!), exergamingevangelist.blogspot.com. And also on my side company’s website, http://www.xrtainmentzone.com.

All the best!

Ernie