International Summer School on Wearable Sensors in Sport 2022 -

Deadline extended to June 13th

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 sports technologies, dive deeper into the specific needs of different sport disciplines, and show how physiological and biomechanical signals can be processed to obtain key performance and health indicators. Potentials and challenges on the use of wearable sensors in sport will be discussed and relevant recommendations provided by leading experts in the field.

Main Topics

The impact of wearables on athletes’ performance
The impact of wearables on athletes’ health
Endurance sports
Team sports
Water sports
Strength and Conditioning
Methodological hints for a successful career in the field of 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).

Host: Teleconference via Microsoft Teams

Location: University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Duration: 3 days for a total of 24 hours

Language: English

School Chairs: Elena Bergamini and Andrea Nicolò, University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Organizing Committee:

Massimo Sacchetti, University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Lorenzo Rum, University of Rome “Foro Italico”

Emiliano Schena, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome

Carlo Massaroni, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome

Eduardo Palermo, Sapienza University of Rome

Gaspare Pavei, University of Milan

Who is a member?

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

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)

Final exam

For Ph.D. students interested in receiving course credits, an exam will be administered electronically after the end of the Summer School.

Certificate of Attendance

A Certificate of Attendance will be provided at the end of the school

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