This paper explores three persuasive strategies and their capacity to encourage biking as a low-energy mode of transportation. The strategies were designed based on: (I) triggering messages that harness social influence to facilitate more frequent biking, (II) a virtual bike tutorial to increase biker's self-efficacy for urban biking, and (III) an arranged bike ride to help less experienced bik...

Mountain biking is an extreme sport with unpredictable terrain and several dangerous risks associated it. Even the soundest minds might need external stimuli to alert them be more careful at a particular moment of potential fall. The proposed work involves developing algorithm capable detecting falls in mountain activity. Machine Learning classifier algorithms are used for fall detection. exist...

The primary aims of this study were to establish a client injury baseline for the New Zealand adventure tourism and adventure sport sector, and to examine patterns and trends in claims for injury during participation in adventure activities. Content analysis of narrative text data for compensated injuries occurring in a place for recreation and sport over a 12-month period produced over 15,000 ...

Participation in children’s and youth sports is increasingly popular and widespread in western culture. In the USA, for example, more than 30 million children participate in sports each year. Trends over recent decades include increased numbers of participants, particularly girls, increased duration and intensity of training, earlier specialisation and year-round training, and increased difficu...

We introduce the problem of autonomous trail following without waypoints and present a visionand ladar-based system which keeps to continuous hiking and mountain biking trails of relatively low human difficulty. Using a RANSAC-based analysis of ladar scans, trail-bordering terrain is classified as belonging to one of several major types: flat terrain, which exhibits low height contrast between ...

Segregated sport was a source of bitter conflict in apartheid South Africa. This paper focuses on cycle apartheid-era Natal, concentrating the circumstances which led to rise and ultimately demise one specific multiracial Durban cycling club: ‘Triangle Cycling Club.’ Based mixed research methodology, it explores impact micro-level state’s changing sports policies local over last quarter twentie...