In this thesis we explore the use of Wireless Sensor Networks to perform online activity matching for sport coaching applications. The goal is to find one or more suitable algorithm to match the movement of a trainer and a trainer and to find spatial and temporal differences. Such a system can aid the trainer in group lessons where it is difficult for the trainer to keep track of all the traine...

The Robotic Gait Rehabilitation (RGR) Trainer targets secondary gait deviations in stroke survivors undergoing rehabilitation. Using an impedance control strategy and a linear electromagnetic actuator, the device generates a force field to control pelvic obliquity through a Human-Machine Interface (i.e. a lower body exoskeleton). Herein we describe the design of the RGR Trainer Human-Machine In...

I investigated the behavioural background of the way horses learn to follow humans in the “round pen technique” suggested by "horse whisperers” as a gentle method for initial horse training. Though the practicability of this technique has been adequately demonstrated in the past, the horses‘ behaviour during such training has not yet been documented in detail. DIn a riding arena, horses, that d...

CONTEXT Previous researchers have demonstrated that male and female athletes feel more comfortable with treatment by a same-sex athletic trainer for sex-specific injuries and conditions. OBJECTIVE To address football players' comfort with care provided by same-sex and opposite-sex athletic trainers for sex-specific and non-sex-specific injuries and conditions through the lens of role congruit...