Active Life Lab, and about me being lost

 Tuomas Reijonen from Saimaa Stadium (Active Life Lab).

This lecture felt very light on information, I'm not sure if I just didn't understand everything or what. I had very little notes written and as I watched the lecture again I couldn't pick anything more. So I've decided to try to find information of this online.

So basically, Gym equipment merged with games to increase motivation and pleasantness to working out. Active Life Lab is a research and development unit for health and wellbeing. 

Started checking about Active Life Lab Gym, online, from this video. It didn't really get too much to the subject of combining games to gym equipment. However, this  video had good points about focusing on your target audience, if they are elderly people or people with disabilities, it's important to remember the ease of access. Something as simple as the gym weights need to be considered, and light enough so the user won't injure themselves.

I honestly feel like I missed something, but there was talk of combining cognitive practices with physical ability. I don't know if there was a good example about how it works, or if it still in such development stages that it wasn't talked about. 

Okay well I am going to leave that part, so I can look at this later and be embarrassed, and also to show that I am actually trying to learn. I realized that I didn't understand cognition, definition of it is "Cognition can be broadly defined as the actions of the brain involved in understanding and functioning in our external environment." -Here

So from seeing videos of Active Life Lab, they were working on gym and exercising that had screens that had gameplay and combining these is combining cognition to it. They have a cognitive bicycle, that has a screen emulating environment that the 'player' bikes in. It is to train mentally too, as the player has to avoid other virtual bikers, and think. If this is compared to a regular gym bike, it is much more mentally challenging.   

I feel lost on this subject, even as I find human brain fascinating, my sorry brain has trouble understanding all this. I'm kind of lost what to write about this subject anymore, I tried reading more about the subject, but I feel like I am looking at everything too broadly. I feel like I don't know what is expected of me or my learning diary, so I am leaving this as it is.