
Sports Innovation, Technology And Research
World Scientific Europe Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 22. September 2016
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-78634-041-2 (ISBN)
Description
Sports Innovation, Technology and Research gives an insight into recent research and design projects at Imperial College London. It presents the on-going development of a diverse range of areas from elite rowing performance to impact protection to sporting amenities in communities.Also included are descriptions of some of the latest innovations that have been developed as part of the Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge, an initiative that tasked engineering students to design, build and implement Paralympic and other sporting equipment. It offers a glimpse at the breadth of creativity that can be achieved when human centred design is applied to an area such as disabled sport. It also shows the potential that design and engineering have to contribute to healthy lifestyles and the generation of whole new sporting domains.This book will be valuable for anyone with an interest in sports technology, including those in industry, academia, sports organisations and athletes themselves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
547 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78634-041-2 (9781786340412)
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Editor
Imperial College London, Uk
Imperial College London, Uk
Imperial College London, Uk
Content
About the Editors; Introduction; Preface: Innovation at Rio Tinto (Chris Goodes); Innovation and Sports Research: Motion Analysis in Sport (Dominic F L Southgate, Joe A I Prinold and Robert A Weinert-Aplin); Putting the Elite Athlete at the Heart of Sport Innovation (Alison McGregor); Interaction between Equipment and Athlete Performance in Racket Sports (Anthony M J Bull and Theofano Eftaxiopoulou); Investigating and Preventing Ankle Sprain (Daniel Fong); Active Armour for the Sporting Goods Market (Daniel Plant); Sporting Ecologies: Constituting the Scale of Neighbourhood (Tarsha Finney); RTSIC Projects 2012-13: Sports Innovation: New Models and Future Potential (Ashley Hall); IDE/UTS GoGlobal Projects; Bioengineering Engineering Design Course Projects; Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Projects; UROP and GoGlobal Development Projects; Index of Poems; Index of Contributors; Subject Index;