High-Technologies for Sport Performance Enhancement

Three presentations, which explore the applications of high technologies in sport comprise this symposium. The first presentation is devoted to the use of video technologies aimed at enhancing the perceptual-cognitive skills (PCS), which precede response-selection and action execution. An overview of approaches designed for developing meaningful video methods to track and train players’ PCS is presented. In the second and third presentations the authors introduce technologies which enhance visual attention and situational awareness, such as stroboscopic visual technology, eye-tracking glasses, 3-dimensional mobile object-tracking simulation (NeuroTracker) technology in a 3-dimensional environment, along with Dynavision attention enhancement technologies for performance enhancement practices. Some technologies allow measuring eye-gaze movements, and quiet-eye and post-quiet eye behaviors in situ. These are later contrasted with performance to determine the individual zone of optimal functioning. New prospects are explored to increase the usefulness and trustfulness of these technologies in emulating real-life situations. Together, the three presentations shade light on the recent technologies used in sport and safety domains for research and training purposes.