Immersive Augmented Reality Experience for Sports Trainers: Understanding Athletes with Visual Disabilities

Daniel Amo-Filva; Eduard de Torres; Henry Hasti; Sergi Villagrasa; Pol Buxadé; Emma Tarazona; Iris Querol; Víctor Valls; Sofia Aguayo Mauri; Sylvana Mestre; Irma Cubillas; Ester Noguera; Daniel Córdoba i.Lledó Valls; Anna Pruna; Josep Maria Lluch; Anna López; Meritxell Tomás; Xavier Faura; Oriol Serra; Jordi March; Elizabeth Carné

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-1814-6_125

Immersive Augmented Reality Experience for Sports Trainers: Understanding Athletes with Visual Disabilities

Daniel Amo-Filva^*
, Eduard de Torres
, Henry Hasti
, Sergi Villagrasa
, Pol Buxadé
, Emma Tarazona
, Iris Querol
, Víctor Valls
, Sofia Aguayo Mauri
, Sylvana Mestre
, Irma Cubillas
, Ester Noguera
, Daniel Córdoba i.Lledó Valls
, Anna Pruna
, Josep Maria Lluch
, Anna López
, Meritxell Tomás
, Xavier Faura
, Oriol Serra
, Jordi March

Elizabeth Carné

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Today’s sports technicians are tasked with adapting to a modern, diverse, and pluralistic society engaged in sporting activities. This brings about the necessity for quality services related to physical activity and sport for people with disabilities. This project aims to enhance the knowledge and competence of trainers of athletes with disabilities through the integration of immersive technologies in an eLearning platform. The primary result of the project is a mobile augmented reality application, which, in combination with a headset, simulates the experiences of athletes with visual impairments. This immersive approach allows trainers to gain a better understanding of the nuances of visual disabilities in sports. Although the user feedback indicated areas for improvement such as dizziness and discomfort from the headset, the project demonstrated the potential of combining educational technology, digital transformation, and immersive technology for a more inclusive sports training approach. This initiative significantly contributes to the field of disability sports training, paving the way for future research focused on refining the user experience and expanding this approach to other disabilities and sports.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
Publisher	Springer Singapore
Pages	1276-1284
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1814-6_125
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Name	Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
Volume	Part F3283
ISSN (Print)	2196-4963
ISSN (Electronic)	2196-4971

Keywords

Augmented reality
Disability sports training
eLearning platform
Immersive learning
User experience improvement

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Amo-Filva, D., de Torres, E., Hasti, H., Villagrasa, S., Buxadé, P., Tarazona, E., Querol, I., Valls, V., Mauri, S. A., Mestre, S., Cubillas, I., Noguera, E., Valls, D. C. I. L., Pruna, A., Lluch, J. M., López, A., Tomás, M., Faura, X., Serra, O., ... Carné, E. (2024). Immersive Augmented Reality Experience for Sports Trainers: Understanding Athletes with Visual Disabilities. In Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (pp. 1276-1284). (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology; Vol. Part F3283). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1814-6_125

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