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People, Sports and Vitality

a challenge and an opportunity!

Prof.dr.ir. A.C. (Aarnout) Brombacher Eindhoven University of Technology

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Major themes at TU/e level (Strategic Areas)

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• Many/most people in the “developed world” lead a strongly

sedentary lifestyle with a severe impact on public health

The escalating pandemics of obesity and sedentary lifestyle [Manson 2004]

• Strong imbalance between calorie intake (↑) and energy use (↓)
• Average energy balance adult female (USA): use approx 2000 kCal;

intake approx 2500-3000 kCal. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise [2001, 33(12):2145-2156]

• Reinforced by a double demographic development
• More people at risk, also getting older (?)
• How can we prevent a serious societal problem
• Many people suffering from chronic diseases
• Low quality of life
• Exponentially growing costs

The challenge

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• If people would maintain their car in the same way

they currently maintain their body the roads would be empty

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• Very little field data available on daily activity patterns
• f adult human beings
• Mostly diary studies (bias!)
• Even more difficult how to design propositions that,

positively, affect these patterns

• Low participation and extreme drop-out rates for sports at

ages beyond 15

• Successes exist but underlying mechanisms still under

subject of further research (Vlaanderen Loopt)

Research problem not trivial

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• TU/e research program
• Sponsored by TU/e board under the Impulse 1

program “Mine your own Body”

• 5 participating faculties (B, EE, ID, IE&IS, W&I)
• Close collaboration with several key-partners
• utside TU/e
• Fontys, University of Utrecht,

Research program People, Sports and Vitality

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Research structure

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• Can we create new concepts/propositions that

make sports/activities an attractive part of everyday life

• Can we create new concepts/propositions where

technology creates added value for the sporters (/coaches) involved

• Can we validate these propositions in context

Key research questions

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• Data acquisition
• Analysing and Modelling
• Designing interventions

Major new developments

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Data acquisition 2010: measuring in lab-context. Loose relation with field behavior

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Revolution in data acquisition (2010-…)

Truly versatile portable real-time 24/7 data acquisition platform

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• Direct measurement
• Position (GPS) / time
• Acceleration
• Activity type (walking/running/cycling)
• Measurement via connected sensors
• Heart rate/ECG
• Respiration
• (EMG)
• (Transpiration)

New possibilities, available with no/low threshold

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A very recent example….

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Another example: Smart Goals

(Chris Heger, Mark de Graaf)

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Some further examples…

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• Research,
• on end-users level,
• data-centered
• based upon new, often low-cost, technology,
• directly in the field
• New products/systems/services
• Using detailed on-body information (during sports activities and/or

24/7)

• To support wide ranges of sports

(priority: running, swimming and football)

• On the level of both top-sporters as well as mass-markets

The future