A sound design for acoustic feedback in elite sports

authored by: Nina Schaffert, Klaus Mattes, Alfred O. Effenberg
Abstract: Sound (acoustic information) is the naturally evocative, audible result of kinetic events. Humans interact with the world by the everyday experience oflistening to perceive and interpret the environment. Elite athletes, especially, rely on sport specific sounds for feedback about successful (or unsuccessful) movements. Visualization plays the dominant role in technique analysis, but the limitations of visual observation (of time related events) compared with auditory perception, which represents information with a clearer time-resolution, mean that acoustic displays offer a promising alternative to visual displays. Sonification, as acoustic representation of information, offers an abundance of applications in elite sports for monitoring, observing movement and detecting changes therein. Appropriate sound is needed to represent specific movement patterns. This article presents conceptual considerations for a sound design to fulfill the specific purpose of movement optimization that would be acceptable to elite athletes, with first practical experience with elite athletes in rowing.
Organisation(s): Institute of Sports Science
External Organisation(s): Universität Hamburg
Type: Conference contribution
Pages: 143-165
No. of pages: 23
Publication date: 2010
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Theoretical Computer Science, General Computer Science
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12439-6_8 (Access: Closed)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{04e164104e844b93821ed5dde5f6d41b,
title = "A sound design for acoustic feedback in elite sports",
abstract = "Sound (acoustic information) is the naturally evocative, audible result of kinetic events. Humans interact with the world by the everyday experience oflistening to perceive and interpret the environment. Elite athletes, especially, rely on sport specific sounds for feedback about successful (or unsuccessful) movements. Visualization plays the dominant role in technique analysis, but the limitations of visual observation (of time related events) compared with auditory perception, which represents information with a clearer time-resolution, mean that acoustic displays offer a promising alternative to visual displays. Sonification, as acoustic representation of information, offers an abundance of applications in elite sports for monitoring, observing movement and detecting changes therein. Appropriate sound is needed to represent specific movement patterns. This article presents conceptual considerations for a sound design to fulfill the specific purpose of movement optimization that would be acceptable to elite athletes, with first practical experience with elite athletes in rowing.",
keywords = "Acoustic feedback, Auditory display, Elite sport, Motion-sounds, Movement optimization, Movement-synchronization, Music, Rhythm, Rowing, Sonification, Sound design, Sound perception",
author = "Nina Schaffert and Klaus Mattes and Effenberg, {Alfred O.}",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-12439-6_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-642-12438-9",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Berlin Heidelberg",
pages = "143--165",
booktitle = "Auditory Display",
note = "6th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2009, Joint with the 15th International Conference on Auditory Display, ICAD 2009 ; Conference date: 18-05-2009 Through 22-05-2009",
}