No / This work aims to develop a personalised
avatar based virtual environment for motivating weight loss
and weight management. Obesity is a worldwide epidemic
which has not only enormous resource impact for the
healthcare systems but also has substantial health as well as
a psychological effect among the individuals who are
affected. We propose to tackle this issue via the
development of a personalised avatar, the form of which can
be adjusted to show the present and the future self of the
individual. For the avatar design and development phase,
we utilise a parametric based mathematical formulation
derived from the solutions of a chosen elliptic partial
differential equation. This method not only enables us to
generate a parameterised avatar model, but it also allows us
to quickly and efficiently create various avatar shapes
corresponding to different body weights and even to
different body postures. / This research was funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme (project reference PB-PG-1215-20016).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17731 |
| Date | 05 March 2020 |
| Creators | Ugail, Hassan, Mackevicius, Rokas, Hardy, Maryann L., Hill, A., Horne, Maria, Murrells, T., Holliday, J., Chinnadorai, R. |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Conference paper, No full-text in the repository |
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