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...high-tech answer to the problem came two years ago when West Virginia University studied the health effects of an exergaming system called Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)--interactive games that instruct kids to use their feet to tap buttons on a sensor mat. After a pilot program found the games were beneficial, the state vowed to install consoles in all its public schools by next year. (It didn't hurt the study's credibility that it was funded in part by an insurance company, not by the gamemaker.) Since then, other districts have climbed aboard, helped by video-game makers...
...gaming system, which can cost up to $4,000 a pop, is more expensive than, say, a kickball, but the fact is, it may work just as well. In January the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found that obese kids burned six times as many calories playing DDR as they did with a traditional video game. And in July the wonderfully named Alasdair Thin, a researcher of human physiology at Heroit-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, found that college students burned twice as many calories playing an active video game in which they dodged and kicked for 30 minutes...
...intensity and excitement and give the event more exposure. We’ve also been handing out T-shirts and VIP passes.FM: VIP passes at Stein Clubs?A: It’s the next best thing to being on the Harvard Concert Commission. You win them through Trivia, Karaoke, DDR. How many we give out will depend on how many people win the Stein Clubs.12.FM: How many people came to last year’s Yardfest? Do you expect similar numbers this year?A: Our guess is 7000. We expect about the same.13. FM: Is there an opening band...
...hosting special Stein Clubs in each of the Houses next month with the House Committees (HoCos), the College announced Wednesday. The 12-part “Pimp Yo’ Stein Club” series—featuring professional trivia, karaoke, “Dance Dance Revolution” (DDR), and food from Harvard Square restaurants—will culminate in Yardfest, an outdoor concert and carnival scheduled for April 28, Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 said. CEB President Adam Goldenberg ’08 added that the series has been...
...concerns over wasted time did not stop Tosatti from taking his DDR pads out of his office for an impromptu practice session with his Harvard teammates yesterday afternoon before the match, according to solidly built fourth-year grad student Dawei Chen...