Advances in Human Factors in Sports Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation Kartoniert (TB)

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 analy sis (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.