The School of Kinesiology’s Physical Activity Epidemiology Lab (PAEL) had a busy week at the 2016 Society for Health and Physical Educators National Convention (SHAPE America) and its partner, the International Chinese Society for Physical Activities and Health Academic Symposium (ICSPAH).
SHAPE American and ICSPAH held conferences concurrently at the Minneapolis Convention Center April 5-9. PAEL lab director and Kinesiology assistant professor Zan Gao, Ph.D., and Kinesiology doctoral students and advisees June Lee and Zachary Pope presented at a number of sessions, as well Dr. Ying Zhang, visiting scholar; Nan Zeng, visiting doctoral student; Sarah Swenson, MEd alum; and recent undergraduate alumni Rebecca Nelson, Katherine Kaase, Hannah Niswonger, and Nicole Cheung.
Below is a full listing of the lab’s presentations with School of Kinesiology presenters.
ICSPAH Academic Symposium:
- Exergaming and motor skills among youth and young adults: A systematic review (Zeng, Gao)
- Exergaming and rehabilitation in older adults: A systematic review (Lee, Gao)
- Secular trends in relationship among psychosocial beliefs, physical activity intention and behavior among children (Lee, Gao)
- Effects of exergaming intervention on children’s psychosocial beliefs and school day energy expenditure (Pope, Lee, and Gao)
- Assessing the preference of ball color distribution and structure through eye-tracker experiment in preschool children (Zhang, Pope)
SHAPE America National Convention:
- Effect of exergaming on children’s energy expenditure and physical activity (Gao, Lee)
- Children’s energy expenditure and physical activity during weekdays and weekends (Gao, Lee)
- Impact of exergaming on children’s motor skills and health-related fitness (Lee, Gao)
- Relationships among children’s psychosocial beliefs, physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness (Lee, Gao)
- Exergaming and children’s before- and after-school physical activity behaviors (Pope, Lee, and Gao)
- Effects of exergaming on urban children’s physical activity and fitness (Pope, Lee, and Gao)
- Effects of active video games on rehabilitation outcomes among patients (Nelson, Kaase, Niswonger, Cheung, Pope, and Gao)
- Objectively-measured determined physical activity levels during structured exercise among home-school children (Swenson, Cheung, Pope, and Gao)
- Effects of Exerbike on adults’ physical activity and situational motivation (Gao)
- Effects of exercise on health outcomes among risk older adults (Gao)
