Enhancing Winter Sport Activities: Improving the Visual Perception and Spatial Awareness of Downhill Winter Athletes with Augmented Reality Headset Displays
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Strong spatial-awareness and visual perception skills can improve an athlete's performance, enhance training and reduce the potential for injury. This research study looks to investigate the barriers and design requirements for developing an augmented reality headset for downhill winter athletes, which may improve visual perception and spatial-awareness. This research used a variety of human-centred-design methods, including surveys, experience-simulation-testing, user-response-analysis, and statistical analysis. 34 participants with experience skiing, or snowboarding at different skill-levels, wore an augmented reality headset and evaluated the visual perception of an icon, while a slope changing platform system simulated a downhill skiing experience. The results revealed various levels of athletes may benefit differently from access to athletic data during an activity, and indicated some expert level athletes can train to strengthen their spatial-awareness abilities. The results generated icon colours, locations within the field-of-view, and alert methods which could be utilized to optimize the design of headset displays.
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Copyright © 2019 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.
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