Wearable technology for physical activity recognition has emerged as one of the fastest growing research fields in recent years. A great variety of body-worn motion capture and tracking systems have been designed for a wide range of applications including medicine, health care, well-being, and gaming. In this paper we present an experimental inertial measurement system for physical impact analy...

Ubiquitous methods and technologies are well-established in modern society. Pervasive computing techniques are also widely used in the field of sport. This article gives an overview of some typical implementations and fields of application regarding the use of pervasive computing in sports competition and training. Moreover, it presents our current focus on the field of “Mobile Coaching” as one...

In the Esalen Institute Transformation Project we are developing an archive of scientific studies concerned with exceptional psychophysical capacities that appear in sport, contemplative practice, the performing arts and other disciplines. In a related and recent study of sport participants, a colleague, Rhea White, and I (Murphy & White, 1978) collected several thousand incidents of altered me...

To commemorate a year of celebration for its 50th Annual Meeting in May 2003 and its 50th anniversary as an organization in 2004, the American College of Sports Medicine and Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews is pleased to publish personal historical perspectives from leading sports medicine and exercise science professionals. This article is the last in a series of articles based on the impac...

International experts in the fields of diabetes, diabetes technology, endocrinology, mobile health, sport science, and regulatory issues gathered for the 8 Annual Symposium on Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose (SMBG) with a focus on personalized diabetes management. The aim of this meeting was to facilitate new collaborations and research projects to improve the lives of people with diabetes. Th...

the purpose of this study was to compare personality traits and anxiety and depression of iranian traditional wrestling athletes with wrestling, taekwondo and kabaddi athletes. 175 sportsmen were randomly selected using morgan and kerjesy table. eysenck personality inventory (epi) and hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) were used to collect the data. in addition to descriptive statisti...

Motor imagery, or the mental rehearsal of actions in the absence of physical movement, is an increasingly popular construct in fields such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology and sport psychology. Unfortunately, few models of motor imagery have been postulated to date. Nevertheless, based on the hypothesis of functional equivalence between imagery, perception and motor execution, Holmes and C...

Objective: The purposes of this paper were to respond to and expand upon Weed's (2009) critique of the use of grounded theory methodology in sport and exercise psychology. Our objectives were to clarify and correct some issues and suggest solutions to the valid problems identified. Method: Weed reviewed 12 grounded theory articles published in four sport and exercise psychology journals between...

Motivation is an important phenomenon in the realm of education, particularly in the university fields connected with physical education and sport, where it is necessary to accommodate and balance intellectual abilities and physical fitness. The present study tested motivation levels among university students in the fields connected with physical education and sport in Poland and Turkey. It was...