Zeus
11-10-2008, 06:26 AM
Its kind of hard to believe, but a university lecturer from the UK has received a grant of £5000 in order to study the Wii. As part of his research, Dr Michael Duncan will study a group of children who use the Wii during their lunch break in order to test if it can improve fitness and battle obesity.
Michael Duncan from the University of Derby will monitor a group of schoolchildren who use the games console during their school lunch break.
Over a period of six weeks he will test to to see if it can improve fitness and help tackle obesity by getting the pupils to wear a an accelerometer to monitor how much exercise the game actually gives them.
It is thought the sports science expert, who was awarded £5,000 funding from the TANITA Healthy Weight Community Trust, hoped he would get to run the tests on the YouTube Wii Fit girlfriend.
News Source: <A href="http://newslite.tv/2008/11/10/university-lecturer-gets-5000.html" target="_blank">Newslite.tv</a>
Michael Duncan from the University of Derby will monitor a group of schoolchildren who use the games console during their school lunch break.
Over a period of six weeks he will test to to see if it can improve fitness and help tackle obesity by getting the pupils to wear a an accelerometer to monitor how much exercise the game actually gives them.
It is thought the sports science expert, who was awarded £5,000 funding from the TANITA Healthy Weight Community Trust, hoped he would get to run the tests on the YouTube Wii Fit girlfriend.
News Source: <A href="http://newslite.tv/2008/11/10/university-lecturer-gets-5000.html" target="_blank">Newslite.tv</a>