Computer Science in High Performance Sport - Applications and Implications for Professional Coaching (Dagstuhl Seminar 13272)

Abstract

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 13272 Computer Science in High Performance Sport - Applications and Implications for Professional Coaching. There were 25 presentations organized into 5 sessions over the course of three days focusing on various aspects on the relevance, applications and current issues pertaining to computer science in sport and it's applications for professional coaching. In each session were covered a miscellaneous of topics which looked at broad topics ranging from hardware devices for mobile coaching, modelling sports as dynamical systems, use of neural networks in performance analysis as well as theoretical issues in human movement science, and serious games. Once again the Dagstuhl seminar concept provided benefits for the experts from different fields and countries that otherwise would hardly meet and have the opportunity to exchange their ideas in an informal fashion way. Several ideas were presented to try to reduce the gap between sport science and high performance coaching and new projects were discussed among the participants, such as the agreement to build a data repository in order facilitate the collaboration between different institutions with common and complementary research topics or framework in performance analysis.