Technology allows runners to obtain information on their running parameters and gain insights to self-reflect on their performance and technique. One of the higher levels of self reflection is transformative self-reflection, which engages runners in a ...

COVID-19 impacted the way we live and experience sports. At various times during the pandemic, it was virtually impossible to meaningfully engage in team sports. In this paper, we present a system built on the basis of the existing SixFeet platform, a ...

Building on insights from the NordiCHI 2022 workshop, this edition delves deeper into the role of social drones to support movement within the context of health, well-being, sports, and play. Our aim is to discuss the diverse challenges associated with ...

Training Load Management (TLM) is crucial for achieving optimal athletic performance and preventing chronic sports injuries. Current sports trackers provide runners with data to manage their training load. However, little is known about the extent and ...

The field of Sports Human-Computer Interaction (SportsHCI) investigates interaction design to support a physically active human being. Despite growing interest and dissemination of SportsHCI literature over the past years, many publications still focus ...

Sports is greatly valued both for its internal benefits (e.g., joy and fulfilment) and its external benefits (e.g., physical health). Still, many people struggle to find or uphold the motivation to practice sports. To ameliorate this issue, researchers ...

In this paper, we highlight how including technology, movement or play can boost a design process but with unbalanced amounts can also hamper the process. We provide a set of examples where we miscalculated the amount of technology, movement, or play ...

Hand hygiene became one of the key measures to prevent COVID-19 infection and the spread of the virus. This, however, is challenging with young children (e.g., primary school). Primary school teachers spend a lot of time supervising and helping ...

With this monograph we introduce a new, systematic taxonomy of Sports Interaction Technology (Sports ITech) that defines a design space of existing and future work in this domain. We set the taxonomy in a context of our view on sport science and sports ...

This paper presents design work and empirical work, exploring a novel way of steering player behaviour and performance in sports, called ‘coaxing’. We propose that athletic performance might be influenced by tricking players into thinking that ...

The global COVID-19 pandemic left few facets of our lives unchanged, including the possibility to play organised sports. Many gyms and sports clubs had to shut down due to social distancing measures, which resulted in reduced physical activity. Co-...

Learning how to properly row is an intensive and injury prone process. Ergometers (i.e., rowing machines) are used as a preparatory step to train the basic steps of rowing, as well as to further improve technique and maintain stamina. In this paper we ...

In Human Behaviour Understanding, social interaction is often modeled on the basis of lower level action recognition. The accuracy of this recognition has an impact on the system's capability to detect the higher level social events, and thus on the ...

In this paper we introduce the first results from the multidisciplinary Smart Sports Exercises project. Building on a thorough background and the aims of the project, we present our approach and discuss the outcomes of a context analysis and the first ...

In this paper, we assess the use of Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) in recognising different volleyball-specific actions. Analysis of the results suggests that all sensors in the IMU (i.e. magnetometer, accelerometer, barometer and gyroscope) ...

Quick and easy access to performance data during matches and training sessions is important for both players and coaches. While there are many video tagging systems available, these systems require manual effort. This paper proposes a system ...