A Virtual Reality Handball Goalkeeper Analysis System

Understanding how professional handball goalkeepers acquire skills to combine decision-making and complex motor tasks is a multidisciplinary challenge. In order to improve a goalkeeper's training by allowing insights into their complex perception, learning and action processes, virtual reality (VR) technologies provide a way to standardize experimental sport situations. In this poster we describe a VR-based handball system, which supports the evaluation of perceptual-motor skills of handball goalkeepers during shots. In order to allow reliable analyses it is essential that goalkeepers can move naturally like they would do in a real game situation, which is often inhibited by wires or markers that are usually used in VR systems. To address this challenge, we developed a camera-based goalkeeper analysis system, which allows to detect and measure motions of goalkeepers in real-time.

@InProceedings\{BZBSHFS10,
  author       = "Bolte, Benjamin and Zeidler, Florian and Bruder, Gerd and Steinicke, Frank and Hinrichs, Klaus H. and Fischer, Lennart and Schorer, Jörg",
  title        = "A Virtual Reality Handball Goalkeeper Analysis System",
  booktitle    = "Proceedings of the Joint Virtual Reality Conference (JVRC) (Poster Presentation)",
  pages        = "1--2",
  year         = "2010",
  url          = "http://basilic.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/Publications/2010/BZBSHFS10"
}