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International Summer School on Wearable Sensors in Sport

Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Italy, 14-16 June 2021

What is the Summer School about?

The field of sport is changing rapidly due to emerging opportunities fostered by technological development. Driven by hardware miniaturization, as well as by advances in computing power, storage capacity, network connectivity, and software capabilities, the use of wearable sensors is becoming increasingly widespread and is set to transform both amateur and professional sports. Individual athletes, sports teams, coaches, and physicians can be technologically equipped on the field, big amounts of data are made available through the Internet of Things and new stakeholders and decision-makers are involved in this technological and social revolution. In this framework, the School aims to provide an overview of current trends in wearable technologies in sport, dive deeper into the working principles of wearable sensors, and show how to process relevant physiological and biomechanical signals. Exciting examples of how wearables are impacting users’ lives, sport sciences and industry will be presented from the different stakeholders’ perspective, with the ultimate goal of maximizing the positive force of sports in a global society.

Main Topics

Trends in wearable sensors and related applications in sport
Cardiac monitoring in sport
Respiratory monitoring in sport
Movement monitoring in sport
Energetics and power monitoring in sport
Training metrics and data analysis
Challenges and perspectives on the use of wearable sensors in sport

Who is the Summer School for?

This School is unique in the intent of establishing synergies between the different actors working in the field of sports monitoring with wearable sensors. Examples of potential attendees are PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, master students, young professionals, employee of sports companies, and other professionals with different backgrounds (e.g. sports science, coaching, physiology, bioengineering, metrology).

Award Winners

1st prize – € 400,00
Bertozzi Filippo – Università degli Studi di Milano

2nd prize – € 250,00
de Barros Sousa Filipe Antonio – Federal University of Alagoas

3rd prize – € 180,00
Rum Lorenzo – Università degli Studi di Roma “Foro Italico”

4th prize – € 130,00
Bondi Danilo – University “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti

5th prize – € 130,00
Mandorino Mauro – Università degli Studi di Roma “Foro Italico”

6th prize – € 130,00
Carter Josh – University of Bath

7th prize – € 130,00
Romano Chiara – Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

8th prize – € 130,00
Sedda Giulia – University of Cagliari

Host: Teleconference via Microsoft Teams

Location: University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Duration: 3 days for a total of 24 hours

Language: English

School chairs:

Andrea Nicolò, University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Elena Bergamini, University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Organizing committee:

Emiliano Schena, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Massimo Sacchetti, University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Giuseppe Vannozzi, University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Federico Mari, University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Carlo Massaroni, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Gaspare Pavei, University of Milan

Juri Taborri, Tuscia University

Remaining time

The School will convene entirely online

Award

The International Summer School on Wearable Sensors in Sport will recognize a number of awards to student and researchers attending the School.

Requirement: To be eligible for the awards, a candidate must be under 35 years old.

Procedure: A set of results obtained from data collected in the sports context using sensors presented during the School will be provided to all candidates. The candidates must write an abstract (following a provided template) based on this set of results.

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Who is a member?

Members are those who are affiliated to the following scientific societies:

IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
SIAMOC – Società Italiana di Analisi del Movimento in Clinica
GNB – Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria
SISMES – Società Italiana Scienze Motorie e Sportive
Student/staff of Erasmus+ Partner Universities of the University of Rome “Foro Italico” (check partners on University of Rome “Foro Italico” official website)