Interactive Sports Technologies

<p>Building on the unfolding and expanding embeddedness of digital technologies in all aspects of life <i>Interactive Sports Technologies: Performance Participation Safety</i> focuses on the intersection of body movement physical awareness engineering design software and hardware to capture emerging trends for enhancing sports and athletic activities. The accessible and inspiring compilation of theoretical critical and phenomenological approaches utilizes the domain of sports to extend our understanding of the nexus between somatic knowledge and human-computer interaction in general. Within this framework the chapters in this volume draw upon a variety of concepts processes practices and elucidative examples to bring together a timely assessment of interactive technologies’ potential to facilitate increased performance participation and safety in sports. </p><p>This collection of chapters from international authors presents diverse perspectives from a wide range of academic and practice-based researchers within a comprehensive coverage of sport disciplines.</p>