Dr. Marcus Smith Principal Lecturer & Field Leader in Exercise Physiology, at University of Chichester, will be talking about the health benefits of drumming at the international ‘Games for Health Conference’ in Boston on 26th May 2010.
The Conference looks at initiatives which support community, knowledge and business development efforts to use cutting-edge games and game technologies to improve health and health care. Topics include active gaming, rehabilitation and physical therapy, disease management, health behaviour change, bio-feedback, epidemiology, training, cognitive exercise, nutrition and health education.
Dr. Marcus Smith will be presenting research from the Clem Burke Drumming Project which was officially launched in 2008. Dr Smith has worked with Clem, the drummer with pop legends Blondie, for over 10-years. High energy expenditure values reflect the true physical challenge to the acoustic drummer during live performances. Whereas heart rate data recorded whilst drumming during a typical 90 minute show were similar to those recorded for premier league football players. At the ‘Games for Health Conference’ Dr Smith, along with colleague Dr. Chris Potter (University of Gloucestershire), will demonstrate an incremental drumming test to exhaustion on the drummer from the rockband Extreme, Kevin Figueiredo. The data, using state of the art sports science equipment, will illustrate the physical demands of playing an acoustic drum kit. A gaming enthusiast playing the most challenging drum solos on the latest version of the interactive video game Rock Band will also be tested to exhaustion. Differences, and the implications, in physiological responses to playing each type of drum kit will be discussed. Dr. Smith said: “We want to challenge the gaming industry to consider the type of hardware and software developments required to further enhance the experience of playing an interactive video game based drum kit. We also want to look at the potential of using interactive drumming based video games to enhance health and well-being in an education and non-education environment”.For more information visit: http://www.clemburkedrummingproject.com
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