Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport: Applications and Future Directions

ISBN-13: 9781138481633 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 357 str.

Paul M. Salmon; Adam Hulme; Scott McLean

Opis

Sport, through participation or spectatorship, represents a significant part of everyday life and wellbeing. This book provides a platform for sports human factors and ergonomics research to showcase key issues being tackled and to inspire the sports and human factors and ergonomics communities to pursue further applications.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. An introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics in sport, Chapter 2. Sport as a complex sociotechnical system, Adam Hulme, Chapter 3. Using the principle of scaling to improve skill acquisition and the overall sporting experience in children’s sport, Chapter 4. Injury prevention in sport – Design with Implementation in Mind, Chapter 5. Physical ergonomics of distance running footwear, Chapter 6. The evolution of steering wheel design in motorsport, Chapter 7. Current methods for optimising sports wheelchairs at an individual level, Chapter 8. Optimising athlete performance in race vehicle systems exposed to mechanical shock and vibration, Chapter 9. Decision-making in sports: looking at and beyond the recognition-primed decision model, Chapter 10. Distributed situation awareness in Australian Rules Football officiating, Chapter 11. Cognitive load in sport, Chapter 12. Using constraints in a complex sports system: modern day training for modern day cricket, Chapter 13. Performance analysis in sport: a Human Factors and Ergonomics approach, Chapter 14. Environmental factors influencing early participation in para-sport, Chapter 15. Round and round and up and down we go again: using causal loop diagrams to model football club performance, Chapter 16. Performance pathways in the sport of dressage: a systems ergonomics approach, Chapter 17. Network analysis of the goals scored at the 2018 football world cup, Chapter 18. Preventing, identifying, and treating concussion: Chapter 19. Using computational modelling for sports injury prevention: agent-based modelling and system dynamics modelling,Chapter 20. Summary and Future Applications of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport