Advances in human factors in sports, injury prevention and outdoor recreation proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Factors in Sports, Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation, July 17-21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

Description

This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sports, injury prevention and outdoor recreation disciplines and provide practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in various domains. Contributions in this book show how various human factors methods, applied historically in the complex safety critical domains, are suited to describing and understanding sports performance and sports injury prevention. The book discusses a wealth of methods for different purposes, such as data collection, task analysis (including cognitive task analysis), workload measurement, assessing situation awareness, performance assessment (including team performance assessment),decision making and cognition in sports, human error identification, and interface evaluation methods. With respect to other publications in human factors and ergonomics, which have been more focused on the biomechanical, physiological, environmental, and equipment-related aspects of sports performance, this book gives a special emphasis to research on analysis of individual and team sports, cognitive and social human factors, and covers both sports and outdoor recreation disciplines. Based on the AHFE 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Sports, Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation, held on July 17-21, 2017, in Los Angeles, California, USA, this book provides readers with a timely survey of new methods that can be implemented during any sport or outdoor recreation event, and for analyzing and improving the performance and safety of both individuals and teams. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Effect of Rater Expertise on Subjective Agility Assessment....Pages 3-14 Analysis of Pitching Skills of Major League Baseball Players....Pages 15-29 Methodology for the Assessment of Clothing and Individual Equipment (CIE)....Pages 30-41 Dynamic Model of Athletes’ Emotions Based on Wearable Devices....Pages 42-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Design of a Secure Biofeedback Digital System (BFS) Using a 33-Step Training Table for Cardio Equipment....Pages 53-64 Blast Performance of Demining Footwear: Numerical and Experimental Trials on Frangible Leg Model and Injury Modeling....Pages 65-72 The Effects of Cupping Therapy on Reducing Fatigue of Upper Extremity Muscles—A Pilot Study....Pages 73-83 Risk of Injuries Caused by Fall of People Differing in Age, Sex, Health and Motor Experience....Pages 84-88 Front Matter....Pages 89-89 Development of a Depth Camera-Based Instructional Tool for Resistive Exercise During Spaceflight....Pages 91-99 The Effect of Awareness of Physical Activity on the Characteristics of Motor Ability Among Five-Year-Old Children....Pages 100-107 Effect of Relative Age on Physical Size and Motor Ability Among Japanese Elementary Schoolchildren....Pages 108-120 Non-apparatus, Quasi-apparatus and Simulations Tests in Diagnosis Positive Health and Survival Abilities....Pages 121-128 Combined Effects of Lower Limb Muscle Fatigue and Decision Making to the Knee Joint During Cutting Maneuvers Based on Two Different Position-Sense-Acuity Groups....Pages 129-140 Activation Sequence Patterns of Forearm Muscles for Driving a Power Wheelchair....Pages 141-147 Direct and Indirect Effect of Hardiness on Mental Health Among Japanese University Athletes....Pages 148-154 A Real-Time Feedback Navigation System Design for Visually Impaired Swimmers....Pages 155-166 Back Matter....Pages 167-168