This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sports injury prevention
and outdoor recreation disciplines and provide practical guidance on a range of methods for
describing representing and evaluating human team and system performance in various
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 2017 Conference on
Human Factors in Sports Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation held on July 17-21 2017 in
Los Angeles California USA this book provides readers with a timely survey of new methods
that can be implemented during any sport or outdoor recreation event and for analyzing and
improving the performance and safety of both individuals and teams.
