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Computer games developed using motion-sensor technology could help reduce childhood obesity and other health issues by getting kids moving while playing indoors.
Running on the spot, jumping, ducking and disco dancing John Travolta-style with Elmo are among the moves in Sesame Street?s first motion-sensor-based game using an Xbox Kinect, which was launched as a pilot last year.
The popular children?s program is developing eight more educational games using Kinect, which are expected to be released later this year.
Eight-year-old Hamish Gartner and his four-year-old brother Aaron tested the Once Upon a Monster game together during the school holidays and within half an hour the brothers needed a break and a glass of water. They gave it a big thumbs up and scores of eight and nine out of 10.
Paediatrician Trevor Parry said child health experts were very concerned about the number of hours children were spending on inactive tasks such as video games.
?We would welcome anything which gets kids up and active and moving as a preventative to the idleness which just makes you sit and nibble snacks and exercise only your thumbs,? he said.
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