At-Home Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames to Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk Among Office Workers: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Jing Zhao   ¹ , PhD ;   Akitomo Yasunaga   ² , PhD ;   Andrew T Kaczynski   ³ , PhD ;   Hyuntae Park   ⁴ , PhD ;   Yufeng Luo   ⁵ , MFA ;   Jiuling Li   ⁵ , BMgt ;   Ai Shibata   ⁶ , PhD ;   Kaori Ishii   ⁷ , PhD ;   Shohei Yano   ^{8, 9} , PhD ;   Koichiro Oka   ⁷ , PhD ;   Mohammad Javad Koohsari   ^{5, 7, 10} , PhD

¹ School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

² Faculty of Health Sciences, Aomori University of Health and Welfare, Aomori, Japan

³ Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Prevention Research Center, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States

⁴ Department of Health Sciences, Graduate School, Dong-A University, Busan, Republic of Korea

⁵ School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan

⁶ Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

⁷ Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan

⁸ Institute for Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan

⁹ Human Care Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

¹⁰ School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia