Sport Informatics - Using Mobile IT to Amplify Event Audience Experience

This paper introduces how mobile IT can be used to enhance audience experience and constitute an alternative information and media resource during sport events. The place of an event is a place of large amounts of information and impressions. Today the audiences refer to journalists and speakers to get the information about the happening parallel to the actual viewing. We now see the surfacing of potential wireless use of handheld computers. Among future applications we think of the possibility of retrieving event information on own initiative while standing in the crowd at the arena. Future networking through mobile devices renders many different appliances and services. Hence, we explore how handheld and alternative media and information channels provide the audience with information and news.