E-Coaching in Sports

E-Coaching in sports is an ambitious field of application, aiming at the optimization of the athletes' sport performances and the increasing of motivation by providing feedback during diverse sport activities. The current research is based on a functional and fully tested prototype implementation of a mobile coaching system called Mobile Motion Advisor (MMA), where a lot of knowledge regarding the required hardware and software tools has already been gathered. The goal of this study is to build up an improved, easy to use and handy application being accessible for a broad number of users. Laying the proper groundwork for further developments, a slimmed version of the MMA - for the discipline running - has been implemented. A major innovation of the framework involves the integration of a model for predicting load-based performances (named PerPot), allowing the generation of automatic feedback messages.