Sports Technology

Prof. Dr. Daniel Memmert is the Managing Director and Professor at the Institute of Exercise Training and Sport Informatics at the German Sport University Cologne. He is the editor and author of numerous textbooks, focusing on exercise science, sports psychology, and computer science in sports. His institute organizes two certificate programs (Match Analysis Team Cologne / Sports Director in Youth Performance and Amateur Soccer) as well as the first international postgraduate program in 'Match Analysis'.

• I Data acquisition systems.- Tracking data.- Biomechanical data.- Self-regulated learning employing marker-less movement analyses in the context of university education in sports.- Wearable Technologies.- Diagnosis of motor performance using exoskeletons.- Inertial sensing in sports.- Using Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) in performance and behavioural analysis.- II Sports equipment and materials.- Controlled sliding as injury prevention.- Mechatronic ski binding.- Aspects and approaches for the development of digital training assistants.- Sports floor characteristics.- III Diagnostics.- Soccerbot360.- Virtual reality.- Video-based human action recognition and its application in dance research.- Sports measuring and information systems and biomechanical feedback training.- Innovative technologies for gait and stance analysis.- Panoramic ultrasound imaging and MyotonPRO.- IV Evaluation and communication.- Feedback systems.- Smartphone Apps.- Movement Sonification – Intermodal Transformation of Movement Data to enhance Motor Learning.- V Selected fields of application.- Metrics in Soccer.- Serious Games.- The Digital Twin – New Opportunities for Diagnostics and Control?.- Vibrations and damping systems in cycling.- Performance Analysis in Soccer.- Esport Assessment.- Video-based decision support for referees in sports games.- Evolutionary Algorithms.