Using the smartphone accelerometer to monitor fall risk while playing a game: The design and usability evaluation of dance! Don't fall

Abstract

Falls are dangerous, and unfortunately common for older adults. Dance! Don't Fall is a game that assesses the quality of the user's locomotion based on data from the accelerometer of a smartphone. By providing a form of exercise, the game may actually reduce fall risk as well as monitoring it. In this paper, we document the development of the prototype and a usability study with ten seniors that suggested the game is well suited to its primary users. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.