Snowboarding

Contact Person

Thomas Holleczek

Projects

• SnowPro
  Snowboarding is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. However, it is rather difficult to learn. Snowboarders who have reached an average level of expertise often find it difficult to improve their style without taking lessons. Moreover, some common mistakes, such as a wrong weight distribution inside the boots, are not visible to instructors. We therefore envision an interactive assistance system integrated into the clothes and the snowboard, which is capable of supporting snowboarders on the piste and helps them improve their riding style.
• RidersGuide
  Although being great fun to exercise, skiing and snowboarding entail the risk of accidents such as any other high-energy participation sport. A factor increasing the risk of accidents is foggy weather, when the view limited to a few meters and safety-critical areas such as crossings, steep areas, obstacles and the edges of the slope cannot be made out. We therefore envision a navigation system supporting the wayfinding of skiers and snowboarders on ski slopes.

Student Projects

• Social Force Model for Ski Slopes, Yu Li, HS 2010
• Design and Evaluation of Vibrotactile Feedback Patterns for Navigation on Ski Slopes, Pirmin Heinzer, FS 2010
• Design and Evaluation of Pressure Sensing Units for Sports Applications, Alex Rüegg, FS 2010
• GPS Navigation on Ski Slopes, Lino Schmid, FS 2010
• Design of a Wearable Monitoring System for Snowboarding, Jona Schoch, FS 2010

Prizes

2010

• Lino Schmid's Master thesis GPS Navigation on Ski Slopes wins graduate award issued by the section Real-Time Systems of the German Computer Science Association.

Publications

2012

• Detection of Snowboarding Moves with Sensorized Bindings
  Thomas Holleczek, Holger Harms and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Science and Skiing V, pages 645-652, Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2012
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• Particle-based model for skiing traffic
  Thomas Holleczek and Gerhard Tröster
  (2012), in: Physical Review E, 85:5(056101)
  [ BiBTeX RIS DOI URL ]

2011

• Pressure Measurements with Sensor-Equipped Snowboard Bindings
  Thomas Holleczek, Alex Rüegg, Holger Harms and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Sportinformatik trifft Sporttechnologie, pages 215-219, Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft, 2011
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• Towards Collision Avoidance on Ski Slopes
  Thomas Holleczek, Martin Wirz and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Ski Trauma and Skiing Safety (ISSS 2011), Keystone, Colorado, USA, 2011
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2010

• Recognizing Turns and Other Snowboarding Activities with a Gyroscope
  Thomas Holleczek, Jona Schoch, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2010), Seoul, South Korea, pages 75-82, IEEE Computer Society, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]
• RidersGuide: The First Real-Time Navigation System for Ski Slopes
  Lino Schmid, Thomas Holleczek and Gerhard Tröster
  in: PEARL 2010 - Informatik Aktuell - Eingebettete Systeme, Boppard, Germany, pages 71-80, Springer, 2010
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• Textile Pressure Sensors for Sports Applications
  Thomas Holleczek, Alex Rüegg, Holger Harms and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Conference on Sensors (IEEE Sensors 2010), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, pages 732-737, 2010
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2009

• Towards an Interactive Snowboarding Assistance System
  Thomas Holleczek, Christoph Zysset, Bert Arnrich, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2009), Linz, Austria, pages 147-148, IEEE Computer Society, 2009
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