Designing the Next Generation of Activity Trackers for Performance Sports

Abstract

Wearable sport technologies and activity trackers help sportspeople by providing physiological information on their performance. However, professional sportspeople find this information irrelevant due to their high-performance training. They want these devices to provide real-time *Produces the permission block, and copyright information. See the specific order to use the table cells to include the authors in the order you want yourself and your co-authors to be listed. Use footnotes sparingly, avoid using them. There is a white text number 1 after the ABSTRACT heading to maintain this ACM copyright block space.

Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in Tennis

“…Eight professional tennis players participated to this study. We should emphasize that finding eligible participants on this level is extremely challenging as also presented by References [ 11 , 33 , 42 ]. In addition, previous research demonstrates more than 7 participants are optimal for small scale user testing [ 46 ].…”

“…Nonetheless, a low-resolution output helps to perceive ‘the bigger picture’ without getting lost in the details. Subtle displays are both inspired from elite tennis coaches’ approaches to give real-time sports performance feedback and a merger between ambient and tangible displays [ 20 , 33 , 34 ].…”

“…Previous work strongly argues that designers must learn and apply coaches’ techniques to sports technologies [ 7 , 35 , 36 ]. Havlucu et al interviewed 6 elite tennis coaches to learn their approaches for giving real-time sports performance feedback [ 33 ]. Their findings indicate that elite coaches refrain from intervening the players and remain passive until the players either demand the feedback or require assistance.…”

“…However, previous studies show ambient displays could become obtrusive [ 29 , 33 ]. Ambient and peripheral displays use periphery of the users’ attention and users’ decision to receive feedback to prevent distraction from primary task [ 16 ].…”

“…Athletes are distracted by being able to access the performance feedback, when they feel stressed about their performance [ 18 , 38 ]. Thus, these displays should avoid giving feedback to athletes in attention demanding phases, like elite tennis coaches who avoid their players by averting their gaze [ 33 ]. In this regard, we argue real-time sports performance displays should not use the periphery of athletes’ attention.…”