the Bicycle Crunch

Become the Beast: Exploring Human-Quadruped Locomotion for Exergames

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodying non-human characters and exercising abdominal muscles are both underexplored in exergames. We address this by describing the design and evaluation of a novel human quadruped locomotion exergame, Become the Beast. In the game, the player lies supine on the ground and moves their arms and legs to control a quadrupedal character (a tiger), similar to common bodyweight abdominal muscle exercises such as the Bicycle Crunch.