Friday, June 6, 2008 Union College lands $200K grant to study benefits of seniors 'cyber' cycling The Business Review (Albany)
Union College in Schenectady has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study how riding a "cyber" bike could improve senior citizens' health.
Union joins 11 other research teams that will receive up to $200,000 each from the foundation's health games research program to measure the effects video games have on young and old.
The study will include projects such as how motion-based games may help stroke patients progress faster in physical therapy.
Union researchers will spend two years examining the physiological and neuropsychological impact of cyber cycling on seniors who are 50 years old and older. Riders' heart rates will be monitored. Union said the idea behind the study is to make exercise more fun for older people.
Cay Anderson-Hanley, a Union assistant professor of psychology, will be the project's lead researcher. She is collaborating with Paul Arciero, an associate professor of exercise science at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs.
"This grant allows two small liberal arts colleges to combine efforts and push the envelope of our research in some new and exciting ways," Anderson-Hanley said.
Other institutions participating include: Cornell University, the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is based in Princeton, N.J.
nion joins 11 other research teams that will receive up to $200,000 each from the foundation's health games research program to measure the effects video games have on young and old.
What a waste of freakin' money! Geezzzzzzzz!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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