Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in Tennis
Sports technology enhances athletes’ performance by providing feedback. However, interaction techniques of current devices may overwhelm athletes with excessive information or distract them from their performance. Despite previous research, design knowledge on how to interact with these devices to p...
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| author | Hayati Havlucu Aykut Coşkun Oğuzhan Özcan |
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| description | Sports technology enhances athletes’ performance by providing feedback. However, interaction techniques of current devices may overwhelm athletes with excessive information or distract them from their performance. Despite previous research, design knowledge on how to interact with these devices to prevent such occasions are scarce. To address this gap, we introduce subtle displays as real-time sports performance feedback output devices that unobtrusively present low-resolution information. In this paper, we conceptualize and apply subtle displays to tennis by designing Tactowel, a texture changing sports towel. We evaluate Tactowel through a remote user study with 8 professional tennis players, in which they experience, compare and discuss Tactowel. Our results suggest subtle displays could prevent overwhelming and distracting athletes through three distinct design strategies: (1) Restricting the use excluding duration of performance, (2) using the available routines and interactions, and (3) giving an overall abstraction through tangible interaction. We discuss these results to present design implications and future considerations for designing subtle displays. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89b778377b0d41ccb7ff4cdd986820d42023-11-22T02:51:48ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202021-07-012113459410.3390/s21134594Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in TennisHayati Havlucu0Aykut Coşkun1Oğuzhan Özcan2Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries, Koç University, Sariyer, Istanbul 34450, TurkeyArçelik Research Center for Creative Industries, Koç University, Sariyer, Istanbul 34450, TurkeyArçelik Research Center for Creative Industries, Koç University, Sariyer, Istanbul 34450, TurkeySports technology enhances athletes’ performance by providing feedback. However, interaction techniques of current devices may overwhelm athletes with excessive information or distract them from their performance. Despite previous research, design knowledge on how to interact with these devices to prevent such occasions are scarce. To address this gap, we introduce subtle displays as real-time sports performance feedback output devices that unobtrusively present low-resolution information. In this paper, we conceptualize and apply subtle displays to tennis by designing Tactowel, a texture changing sports towel. We evaluate Tactowel through a remote user study with 8 professional tennis players, in which they experience, compare and discuss Tactowel. Our results suggest subtle displays could prevent overwhelming and distracting athletes through three distinct design strategies: (1) Restricting the use excluding duration of performance, (2) using the available routines and interactions, and (3) giving an overall abstraction through tangible interaction. We discuss these results to present design implications and future considerations for designing subtle displays.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/13/4594subtle displaysambient devicestangible interactionsports feedbacktennis |
| spellingShingle | Hayati Havlucu Aykut Coşkun Oğuzhan Özcan Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in Tennis Sensors subtle displays ambient devices tangible interaction sports feedback tennis |
| title | Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in Tennis |
| title_full | Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in Tennis |
| title_fullStr | Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in Tennis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in Tennis |
| title_short | Tactowel: A Subtle Sports Performance Display for Giving Real-Time Performance Feedback in Tennis |
| title_sort | tactowel a subtle sports performance display for giving real time performance feedback in tennis |
| topic | subtle displays ambient devices tangible interaction sports feedback tennis |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/13/4594 |
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