Real-Time Sonification of Motor Coordination to Support Motor Skill Learning in Sports

Toshitaka Kimura, Takemi Mochida, Tetsuya Ijiri, Makio Kashino

2014

Abstract

It is essential that we recognize our own posture and movements if we are to acquire and improve goal-directed actions such as sports. However, it is not easy to adequately realize the temporal structure of one’s own state in action, especially when using visual feedback of the action, because of the limited temporal resolution of visual perception. A possible way to overcome this problem is to use auditory feedback because auditory perception has higher temporal resolution than vision. Here we propose real-time auditory feedback techniques designed to sonify the temporal coordination of multiple body segments in sports action on the basis of surface electromyography and acceleration signals. Our aim is to sonify how the body is controlled rather than behavioral outcomes or individual segmental activity. We believe that these techniques will help a player to learn a desired sports-related motor skill effectively.

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Kimura T., Mochida T., Ijiri T. and Kashino M. (2014). Real-Time Sonification of Motor Coordination to Support Motor Skill Learning in Sports . In - icSPORTS, ISBN , pages 0-0


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@conference{icsports14,
author={Toshitaka Kimura and Takemi Mochida and Tetsuya Ijiri and Makio Kashino},
title={Real-Time Sonification of Motor Coordination to Support Motor Skill Learning in Sports},
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year={2014},
pages={},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
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}


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TI - Real-Time Sonification of Motor Coordination to Support Motor Skill Learning in Sports
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AU - Kimura T.
AU - Mochida T.
AU - Ijiri T.
AU - Kashino M.
PY - 2014
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DO -