Sport Training Using Body Sensor Networks: A Statistical Approach to Measure Wrist Rotation for Golf Swing

Paper by Ghasemzadeh, Hassan, et al.

Presentation by Michael Knight

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A paper about using technology in golf

Golf is hard

It requires coaching

Can we make an effective coach using sensors and data?

Building a Coach

Sensors were placed at 5 different points and data was gathered

The data was analyzed and a model was created

Now compare that model against a model of a great golf swing

Problems

Tons of variables in the golf swing

A wealth of data to analyze

Solution: limit the sensors to one part of the swing

Results

The wrist was chosen as the single data collection spot

Researchers able to gather and analyze data in real time

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