This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sport and outdoor recreation
disciplines and provides practical guidance on a range of methods for describing representing
and evaluating human team and system performance in sports domains. Contributions in this
book show how various human factors methods applied historically in the complex safety
critical domains are suited to describing and understanding sports performance and sports
injury prevention. The book discusses a wealth of methods for different purposes such as data
collection task analysis (including cognitive task analysis) workload measurement assessing
situation awareness performance assessment (including team performance assessment) decision
making and cognition in sports human error identification and interface evaluation methods.
With respect to other publications in human factors and ergonomics which have been more
focused on the biomechanical physiological environmental and equipment-related aspects of
sports performance this book gives a special emphasis to research on analysis of individual
and team sports cognitive and social human factors and covers both sports and outdoor
recreation disciplines. Based on the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors in
Sports and Outdoor Recreation held on July 27-31 2016 in Walt Disney World® Florida USA
this book provides readers with a timely survey of new methods that can be implemented during
any sport or outdoor recreation event for analyzing and improving the performance and safety of
both individuals and teams.
