The Vibe of Skating

The Vibe of Skating: Design and Testing of a Vibro-Tactile Feedback System

Jansen, A.J. (TU Delft Product Architecture Design)
Dekker, M.C. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design)
van der Steen, Diederik

Espinosa, Hugo G. (editor)
Rowlands, David R. (editor)
Shepherd, Jonathan (editor)
Thiel, David V. (editor)

2018

Providing athletes with real-time feedback on their performance is becoming common in many sports, also in speed skating. This research-by-design project aims at finding a tool that allows the speed skater to get real-time feedback on his performance. Speed skaters often mention a so-called “good feeling” when skating behind a better skater. It is the feeling nearly every speed skater is after when skating alone; skate with less power while maintaining the same speed and feeling of ease. A longer push-off phase at a constant cadence has proven to contribute to this ideal situation but is hard for the coach alone to influence this. Therefore, a system was designed that measures the skating cadence and challenges the skater to change his skating stroke by means of vibro-tactile feedback. Four subjects have tested the feedback system. From this test, we concluded that the system provides meaningful feedback towards changing the skating cycle.

skating
real-time feedback
vibro-tactile feedback
research-by-design

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c2f08c2e-bdcc-4a24-b158-0b051efa465d

https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2060296

MDPI

Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA 2018): Engineering of Sport

ISEA 2018: 12th Conference of the International Sports Engineering Association 'Engineering of Sport', 2018-03-26 → 2018-03-28, Brisbane, Australia

Proceedings, 2504-3900, 2 (6)

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© 2018 A.J. Jansen, M.C. Dekker, Diederik van der Steen