HEL617 Technology in sport: Making decisions in a time of data overload (Høst 2023)

• EX-605 Philosophy of Science in Health and Sport Science
• ME-617 Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis or equivalent
• ME-626 General Quantitative Research Methods or equivalent

On successful completion of the course, the candidate will have acquired:

Advanced knowledge about:

• Current technologies and data collection methods employed in high-level sports (endurance, strength/power and team sports)
• Relevance and interpretation of laboratory versus field-based assessments
• Training data analytics applied to performance monitoring and development
• Distributed data collection approaches
• Validity and reliability of commonly used metrics in high-level sport
• Integrating and interpreting physiological and psychological metrics
• Artificial Intelligence/machine learning in sport science

Skills

• Can critically evaluate, disseminate results within data analysis and interpretation in high-level sport
• Can critically evaluate assessment methods used for physiological and psychological data metrics in high-level sports
• Can formulate relevant research questions and plan the implementation of data analysis and interpretation in high-level sport research and interventions

General competence

• Can communicate relevant knowledge through scientific and popular scientific channels

• General to sport-specific: Progression from laboratory to field-based assessments
• Testing and monitoring athletes in endurance, strength/power and team sports settings
• Using day-to-day data to optimize individual training load: Stress/Recovery balance
• Opportunities and limitations of using Artificial Intelligence in sport
• Development and opportunities with distributed/crowdsourcing data methods
• Effective interpretation and presentation of data for coaches and athletes
• The evolution of sport and the future of e-sport