HEL617 Technology in sport: Making decisions in a time of data overload
- Studiepoeng:
- 5
- Ansvarlig avdeling:
- Fakultet for helse- og idrettsvitenskap
- Emneansvarlig:
- Matthew Ronald Spencer
- Undervisningssemester:
- Vår, Høst
- Undervisningsspråk:
- English, if any English as mother tounge participants.are enrolled.
- Varighet:
- 1 semester
Emnet er tilknyttet følgende studieprogram
- Ph.d.-program i helse- og idrettsvitenskap
Undervisningsspråk
English, if any English as mother tounge participants.are enrolled.Forkunnskapskrav
Adimtted to a PhD-program
Anbefalte forkunnskaper
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EX-605 Philosophy of Science in Health and Sport Sciences
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ME-617 Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis or equivalent
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ME-626 General Quantitative Research Methods or equivalent
Innhold
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General to sport-specific: Progression from laboratory to field-based assessments
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Testing and monitoring athletes in endurance, strength/power and team sports settings
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Using day-to-day data to optimize individual training load: Stress/Recovery balance
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Opportunities and limitations of using Artificial Intelligence in sport
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Development and opportunities with distributed/crowdsourcing data methods
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Effective interpretation and presentation of data for coaches and athletes
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The evolution of sport and the future of e-sport
Læringsutbytte
On successful completion of the course, the candidate will have acquired:
Advanced knowledge about:
- Current technologies and data collection methods employed in high-level sports (endurance, strength/power and team sports)
- Relevance and interpretation of laboratory versus field-based assessments
- Training data analytics applied to performance monitoring and development
- Distributed data collection approaches
- Validity and reliability of commonly used metrics in high-level sport
- Integrating and interpreting physiological and psychological metrics
- Artificial Intelligence/machine learning in sport science
Skills
- Can critically evaluate, disseminate results within data analysis and interpretation in high-level sport
- Can critically evaluate assessment methods used for physiological and psychological data metrics in high-level sports
- Can formulate relevant research questions and plan the implementation of data analysis and interpretation in high-level sport research and interventions
General competence
- Can communicate relevant knowledge through scientific and popular scientific channels
Vilkår for å gå opp til eksamen
Participation in compulsory lectures, group work, practical workshops, discussions and presentations as stated in the course description
Undervisnings- og læringsformer
Over five days, teaching and learning methods will consists of a combination of lectures, group work, practical workshops, discussions, and presentations based on course topics and the candidates own research experiences and work.
Tilgang for privatister
No
Tilbys som enkeltemne
No
Eksamen
Individual two-weeks home examination will be assessed as pass/fail.
Annen informasjon
Contact persons: Matthew Spencer (matthew.spencer@uia.no) and Stephen Seiler (stephen.seiler@uia.no)