PhD/MPhil position in smart phones for health and sport applications

[Daniel JAMES]

The Centre for Wireless Monitoring seeks interested applicants for fully funded postgraduate research into the use of smart phones in health and activity monitoring. The applications of this emerging technology are enormous and are bulit upon our success with the iPhone and  generous support from Apple together with our longer term experiences in sports and health monitoring. You will join a team of 20 people working in this wider area with the goal of making a difference to peoples lives.

The candidate would need to be self motivated, interested in smart phone development together with cloud based connectivity solutions. Candidates should (or will) hold an honours degree and where a successful application for a commonwealth or university scholarship ( of around $20k pa tax free) is successful the centre scholarship will provide an additional top up amount

Please contact David Rowlands if you are interested in this opportunity d.row...@griffith.edu.au 

and see our website for more information http://qsportstechnology.com/sportstechnology

A recent paper of the preliminary work can be found here

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705811010368

iPhone sensor platforms: Applications to sports monitoring

T. McNab^a, , , D.A. James^a, b and D. Rowlands^a

^a Centre for Wireless Monitoring & Applications, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

^b Center of Excellence for Applied Sports Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport, Brisbane,Australia

Available online 26 July 2011. 

Abstract

The testing and monitoring of elite athletes in their natural training environment is becoming an area of interest to the sporting community. Specialised equipment is cumbersome and influences the training and analysis regimens athletes undertake to improve their performance. Ubiquitous and off-the-shelf versatile smartphones with advanced sensing capabilities can be applied to sports activity monitoring, providing a cost-effective means of widespread performance analysis. This paper briefly outlines the case for using these smartphones in sports monitoring applications, presents a model to collect data generated by these devices and presents the results of real-world usage when applied to cricket.

Keywords: Inertial sensor; database; iPhone; realtime

Daniel James, Queensland Sports Technology Cluster 

Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University
Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport
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