Chantal Vallée is the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Windsor in Canada. She holds a master’s degree in sport psychology with a focus on building successful programs. She has received 12 conference and 2 national coach of the year awards, produced 4 national team members, and has won 5 national titles. In her last seven seasons, she has maintained a 93% winning pe...

Postings in the discussion forum hold a rich database of reusable resources. The discussion forum has often been used for discussion but rarely as a coach. This paper presents an implementation of the discussion forum as a secondary coach in a collaborative, active learning environment, its benefits to the students and the teachers, and anticipated problems that may arise from the implementatio...

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This article describes the coaching strategies of NESTORE e-coach, a virtual coach for promoting healthier lifestyles in older age. The novelty project is definition multi-domain personalized pathway where e-coach accompanies user throughout different structured and non-structured activities recommendations. also presents design process strategies, carried out including adults from four Europea...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine whether the relationships between contextual factors and basic psychological needs were related to antisocial and prosocial behavior in sport. A two-study project employing Bayesian path analysis was conducted with competitive athletes (Study 1, n = 291; Study 2, n = 272). Coach and teammate autonomy-supportive climates had meaningful direct rela...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the Music Coach application that runs on the Nokia N900 mobile phone platform. The application plays the role of a music coach which listens to the user’s musical performance and provides realtime feedback on both timing and pitch accuracy. It also utilizes the accelerometer in the mobile phone to detect and update tempo set by the mus...

CONCLUSION We have identified six areas where smart technologies can be applied to tailor various aspects of an individualized activity coach. Location-aware activity-type sensing (1) and self-learning individual goal setting algorithms (2) should form the basis for providing awareness of physical activity as well as obtainable goals. The generation of motivational messages can benefit from com...

The current paper describes research that is aimed to elucidate our understanding of technology factors that may help users of home exercise equipment to stay motivated for doing regular work-outs. In particular, we investigated the effects of immersion and coaching by a virtual agent on intrinsic motivation and the sense of presence of participants cycling on a stationary home exercise bike. A...

Teams are increasing their use of the Kanban process methodology across a range information system projects, including software development and data science projects. While is growing, little has been done to explore how improve team performance for teams that Kanban. One possibility introduce Coach (KC). This work reports on exploring Coach, with respect both coach could interact as well impac...

The business coaching process is centered on the task of identifying, analyzing and solving problems—not unidimensional puzzles or profound, life-altering mysteries. As a business coach, I make extensive use of a threedimensional model of problem analysis. It can be of great value in addressing the complexities of a client’s problem. This essay concerns the nature of this three-dimensional mode...