The Role of Technology

• How can a metabloic cart help individuals

  Determine energy requirements and response to nutrition over time, calcluate energy expenditure and the fitness of the athlete
• What are some issues with indirect calorimetry

  Inaccuracies from air leaks, recording errors, difficult to use on children, overfeeding or underfeeding due to the results and it's single snapshot
• How is GPS software useful


  Coaches can monitor players, vast info quickly, success in technical performance, measures the impact of G forces, help make decisions about substitutions, decrease the risk of injury, manage workload during rehabilitation.
• What is a G force

  Forces acting on the body as a result of acceleration or gravity
• How can data integrity be compramised

  Human error when data is entered, errors occuring when data is transfered from one computer to another, software bugs or viruses, hardware malfunctions
• What are the ways to minimise threats to data integrity

  Regularly back up data, strong passwords, security mechanisms, error detection and don't leave the computer unattended for others to access
• What is Dartfish


  Combines technical, tactical and statistical information to improve performance
• How can data analysis be used

  • Game analytics - Individuals and team performance
  • Talent Identification - 'pathway analytics'
• How can equipment be adapted for sport

  Assistive devices e.g. lightweight wheelchairs for rugby, cross-country sit skis. Prosthetic devices are designed to compete activities like sport
• What are the negative implications of using technology for sport

  It can be misleading - GPS states an athlete has run shorter than they really have. Expensive. 'Paralysis by analytics' - too reliant on data. Placebo effect - increase confidence by using equipment even if it isn't reliable
• What are the benefits of technology for the performer

  Improved colthing/footwear - swimming suits. Improved sporting equipment. Improved protective equipment. Improve recovery from training - compression garments. GPS. Increased knwoledge about diet and sports supplements. Advancements in drug-testing#
• What are the negatives technology can have on a performer

  Injury or over-aggression (studs), Cheating and drugs (mask agents), Expensive and unaffordable, Become dependant
• What is the effectivness of technology on the coach

  • + Highly informative
  • + Focused training programmes
  • - Reliant
  • - Hacking of opponents
• What is the effectivness of technology on spectators

  • + Information about their favourite teams and players
  • + 'Mic'd-up' referees to understand what is being said on the field
  • - Loss of respect for the official as the 'final decision maker'
  • - Breaks in play which can be disruptive if the referees over-use it
• What is the effectivness of technology for Officials

  • + Right decision is made
  • + Helps officials communicate with one another
  • + Increased accuracy and timing communciated to the audience
  • + Increased excitement for the audience when waiting for a decision