We believe that sports is a domain that would both provide valuable input to the area of peripheral interaction, as well as benefit from peripheral interaction itself. We present two pilot studies on peripheral interaction for crosscountry skiing and golf using vibration feedback and audio feedback respectively. We believe the results of these initial studies are encouraging and aim to pursue t...

Slow motion videos are frequently featured during broadcast of sports events. However, these videos do not feature any audio channel, apart from the live ambiance and comments from sports presenters. Standard audio time-scaling methods were not developed with such noisy signal in mind and they do not always permit to obtain an acceptable acoustic quality. In this work, we present a new approach...

The current wide-scale availability of the internet and connected mobile devices is revolutionising healthcare. Patients and practitioners have unprecedented access to health information; they communicate with each more than ever before. It seems as if new technology is appearing daily and with it comes the promise of greater (cost) efficiency and quality of medical practise. The sports medicin...

The advent of social media expands our ability to transmit information and connect with others instantly, which enables us to behave as "social sensors." Here, we studied concurrent bursty behavior of Twitter users during major sporting events to determine their function as social sensors. We show that the degree of concurrent bursts in tweets (posts) and retweets (re-posts) works as a strong i...

We propose a system that can automatically identify exciting events in a sports video and can use this information to automatically generate highlights. The proposed system exploits information in audio, speech and video channels to automatically segment the video to create play-by-play discrete chunks, and subsequently use a number of simple yet efficient multimodal features to assign an excit...

With the 2015 European College of Sports Science (ECSS) meeting in Malmö just around the corner (in time, if not space), I thought I would recap on what was an exciting meeting in Amsterdam last July. As Deputy Editor of a journal that, at the time, was yet to be launched - the 19th ECSS meeting provided the perfect place to make acquaintance with new and potential Editorial Board members and t...

A large amount of video content is available and stored by broadcasters, libraries and other enterprises. However, the lack of effective and efficient tools for searching and retrieving has prevented video becoming a major value asset. Much work has been done for retrieving video information from constrained structured domains, such as news and sports, but general solutions for unstructured aud...

SPORT SPECIALISATION: FRIEND OR FOE? Sports participation is increasing in the USA (US population 313 million inhabitants) and in Icelandic (population 320 thousand inhabitants) adolescents, it is estimated that 35–45 million youth 6–18 years of age participate in some form of organised or recreational athletics. 2 However, sports specialisation including year-round sport-specific training, par...