Emerging Trends of Information Technology in Sports

This paper overviews the role of the sports coach is hugely varied, but it mainly involves: Teaching rules, techniques and tactics to beginners. Providing an objective view to help teams and individuals enhance performance. Helping those involved in top level sport deal with enormous pressures faced in a highly competitive environment. Through expert tutoring, constructive criticism, motivation and on-hand support, sports coaches can help individuals focus their minds, hone their bodies and learn their disciplines inside-out to ensure they have the best possible chance of succeeding. Diverse information technologies that are used to provide athletes with relevant feedback. Examples taken from various sports are used to illustrate selected applications of technology-based feedback. Several feedback systems are discussed, including vision, audition and proprioception. Each technology described here is based on the assumption that feedback would eventually enhance skill acquisition and sport performance and, as such, its usefulness to athletes and coaches in training is critically evaluated.