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Human factors and ergonomics in sport applications and future directions

Sport, either through participation or spectatorship, represents a part of everyday life and plays a key role in our health and well being. It is also big business. When this is considered with the fact that most sports exhibit many of the characteristics of complex safety critical systems, it is no...

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Other Authors: Salmon, Paul M. (Editor), McLean, Scott (Editor), Dallat, Clare (Editor), Mansfield, Neil (Editor), Solomon, Colin (Editor), Hulme, Adam (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL CRC Press 2021
Subjects:
Sports > physiological aspects
Human engineering
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Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to human factors and ergonomics in sport
  • Sport as a complex sociotechnical system
  • Using the principle of scaling to improve skill acquisition and the overall sporting experience in children's sport
  • Injury prevention in sport : design with implementation in mind
  • Physical ergonomics of distance running footwear
  • The evolution of steering wheel design in motorsport
  • Current methods for optimising sports wheelchairs at an individual level
  • Optimising athlete performance in race vehicle systems exposed to mechanical shock and vibration
  • Decision-making in sports : looking at and beyond the recognition-primed decision model
  • Distributed situation awareness in Australian rules football officiating
  • Cognitive load in sport
  • Using constraints in a complex sports system : modern day training for modern day cricket
  • Performance analysis in sport : a human factors and ergonomics approach
  • Environmental factors influencing early participation in para-sport
  • Round and round and up and down we go again : using causal loop diagrams to model football club performance
  • Performance pathways in the sport of dressage : a systems ergonomics approach
  • Network analysis of the goals scored at the 2018 football World Cup
  • Preventing, identifying, and treating concussion : a systems approach to concussion management in community sport
  • Using computational modelling for sports injury prevention : agent-based modelling and system dynamics modelling
  • Summary and future applications of human factors and ergonomics in sport.

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