Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
6 results found tagged adaptive sports.
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SpokeSense: Developing a Real-Time Sensing Platform for Wheelchair Sports
This paper presents SpokeSense, a wheel-mounted sensing platform designed to track and analyze wheelchair basketball performance in real time. While substantial work has gone into sensing and analytics for mainstream sports, wheelchair sports have re…
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"But, I don't take steps": Examining the Inaccessibility of Fitness Trackers for Wheelchair Athletes
This paper investigates why wheelchair athletes show low adoption of wearable fitness trackers despite interest in tracking physical activity. The authors interviewed five wheelchair athletes (participating in hand cycling, rugby, basketball, and ten…
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Understanding Fatigue and Stamina Management Opportunities and Challenges in Wheelchair Basketball
This paper investigates the current use and future potential of wearable fitness technologies for stamina and fatigue management in wheelchair basketball — a team sport originally created for paraplegic athletes that now includes people with a range …
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Exploring the Data Tracking and Sharing Preferences of Wheelchair Athletes
This paper explores how wheelchair basketball players want to use and share automatically tracked performance data, using a prototype sensor device as a discussion probe. The researchers interviewed 15 wheelchair basketball players (mean age 33, 1 fe…
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Leveraging Shared Control to Empower People with Tetraplegia to Participate in Extreme Sports
This paper describes the iterative design and field evaluation of Tetra-Ski, a power-assisted adaptive ski chair that enables people with tetraplegia to participate in alpine skiing — a high-risk, high-independence activity previously inaccessible to…
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Beyond Adaptive Sports: Challenges & Opportunities to Improve Accessibility and Analytics
While sports data analytics has become a multi-billion dollar industry transforming training, strategy, and refereeing in able-bodied sports, adaptive sports have been largely left behind by this technological revolution. Khurana et al. interviewed 1…