Event Title
WiiMotes and Dartfish: Low and High Cost Tools for Understanding Sport Science
Location
Moakley 135
Start Time
13-1-2010 1:30 PM
End Time
13-1-2010 3:00 PM
Description
In our team-taught Second Year Seminar Tools for Understanding Sport Science, our students generated sport science research questions related to concepts of displacement, velocity and/or acceleration. Their research questions explored skydiving, basketball, baseball, and ziplining. Students used WiiMotes and/or digital video cameras and Dartfish software to explore the answers to their questions. The WiiMote is used with Wii video games, and its principal function is to transmit the user’s physical motion to the Wii Console via BlueTooth and Infrared signals. We used inexpensive, already developed technology to utilize the BlueTooth signal from the WiiMote to gather acceleration (and some velocity and displacement) information for the projects. Dartfish is a software program often used by TV networks to display a series of frame-by-frame pictures of an athletic motion. This more expensive tool allows users to analyze motion (displacement and velocity) frame by frame from a digital video file. In this presentation, we will demonstrate these tools and some of their applications as used by our students in their projects.
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WiiMotes and Dartfish: Low and High Cost Tools for Understanding Sport Science
Moakley 135
In our team-taught Second Year Seminar Tools for Understanding Sport Science, our students generated sport science research questions related to concepts of displacement, velocity and/or acceleration. Their research questions explored skydiving, basketball, baseball, and ziplining. Students used WiiMotes and/or digital video cameras and Dartfish software to explore the answers to their questions. The WiiMote is used with Wii video games, and its principal function is to transmit the user’s physical motion to the Wii Console via BlueTooth and Infrared signals. We used inexpensive, already developed technology to utilize the BlueTooth signal from the WiiMote to gather acceleration (and some velocity and displacement) information for the projects. Dartfish is a software program often used by TV networks to display a series of frame-by-frame pictures of an athletic motion. This more expensive tool allows users to analyze motion (displacement and velocity) frame by frame from a digital video file. In this presentation, we will demonstrate these tools and some of their applications as used by our students in their projects.
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