Sensor Technology for Sports Science
A topical collection in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This collection belongs to the section "Wearables".
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Interests: sport; biomechanics; instrumentation; audio; video; performance; technology; rowing
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Dear Colleagues,
Science and technology are changing sport around the world. Sports scientists are regularly trying to find the key to boost athletes’ performance while avoiding injury in competition and training. In attempting to jump higher, run faster, and perform better, athletes push their muscles, joints, and their whole bodies to the extreme. While the foundations for peak performance and injury prevention have been studied in the past, scientific instrumentation has not been within the reach of professionals and practitioners.
With the economic development and scientific technological progress, sensors for sports technology have rapidly emerged. Technology allows objectively monitoring athletes so that key sport-specific characteristics can be quantified to enhance their performance and promote effective decision-making processes among sport scientists and coaches. In recent years, significant sensor developments have led to broad usage of instrumentation in all sorts of fields of sport-related relevant information about athletes, such as tactical, technical, physical, and emotional performance.
The aim of this topical collection is to focus on innovative developments in the field of sensors for sports technology. Articles addressing this topic, particularly those providing new insights into their use for innovative technologies that allow the widespread use of sports instrumentation, are welcome. In order to bring the lab to the field, proposals must address the usefulness, precision, and consistency of the data collected to measure characteristics specific to the sport.
Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original research and review papers that address but are not restricted to the following topics:
- Video technology;
- Computer vision;
- Wearable sensors;
- Augmented and virtual reality;
- Smartphone apps;
- Biometrics;
- Motion capture;
- Piezoelectric transducers and strain gauges;
- Inertial measurement units (IMU);
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS);
- Load cells and force plates;
- Signal processing.
Prof. Dr. Basilio Pueo
Collection Editor
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Keywords
- Sports
- Instrumentation
- Technology
- Wearable
- Biomechanics
- Performance
- Training