MISFIT – Maximising Inclusiveness in Sports through Female-centric Innovation and Technology

MISFIT — 通过以女性为中心的创新和技术最大限度地提高体育包容性

• 批准号: 10025932
• 金额: $ 113.11万
• 依托单位: KYMIRA LTD.
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10025932
• 关键词: MISFIT; Maximising; Inclusiveness; Sports; through

The needs of older women are largely ignored in many areas of life,?and this is particularly true when it comes to sport and exercise. Yet sustaining fitness and activity levels for women as they age has life-changing and lasting benefits in relation to?physical health,?happiness?and?mental wellbeing.In the?older female population, a particular barrier to remaining physically active is lower limb pain and injury risks.?Women aged 50+ face particular barriers to getting and/or staying physically active. As well as an increased incidence of pain, discomfort and injury, this group are not well-supported in terms of assistive and appropriate sports technologies, sportswear and footwear -- which tend to be developed for, and marketed to,?young people.?In fact, the majority of exercise and sport-related injury prevention research is conducted on young, often male, adults, largely in the context of elite sports. The effects of gender and ageing on bodily biomechanics and physiology remain poorly understood, making it challenging to remove or even address these barriers and changes to injury risks. Furthermore, conventional biomechanics studies are limited to laboratory-based research with small participant numbers, preventing large-scale data insights of normal people,?doing normal?sports,?in normal settings. There is an urgent need to progress our understanding of female sports biomechanics through life, and develop relevant technologies and products to support inclusive sports participation by women of all ages.?Project MISFIT aims to address this gap in the Healthy Ageing space by developing a new movement analytics service that is designed specifically for older women. This will provide?evidence-based?information?regarding?bespoke?exercise regimes?and?injury prevention?to?support continued?safe participation in?physical activity.MISFIT will build on KYMIRA's?award-winning sports apparel solutions, which will be adapted for older females. The project?uses?smart garments?equipped with sensors and pressure measuring insoles, to capture and integrate kinematic (movement), kinetic (force) and?physiological data during everyday sports.?MISFIT will enable large-scale data-gathering to provide population-level insights into injury mechanisms and optimum exercise regimes as women get older. MISFIT will translate the data and learnings to provide a sports advisory service to users. In a further innovation, award-winning sports footwear developer Ida Sports will use the service to inform the user-centric design of a new range of sports footwear?to support?women?to continue in sport participation?as they age.

老年妇女的需求在生活的许多领域基本上被忽视，在运动和锻炼方面尤其如此。然而，随着年龄的增长，女性保持健康和活动水平对改变生活和持久的好处有什么关系？身体健康，？幸福吗然后呢？心理健康。在？对于老年女性来说，保持身体活动的一个特别障碍是下肢疼痛和受伤风险。50岁以上的妇女在获得和/或保持身体活动方面面临特殊障碍。除了疼痛、不适和受伤的发生率增加外，这一群体在辅助和适当的运动技术、运动服装和鞋类方面没有得到很好的支持，而这些技术、运动服装和鞋类往往是为以下方面开发和销售的：年轻人？事实上，大多数运动和运动相关伤害预防研究是在年轻人（通常是男性）中进行的，主要是在精英运动的背景下。性别和年龄对身体生物力学和生理学的影响仍然知之甚少，这使得消除甚至解决这些障碍和伤害风险的变化具有挑战性。此外，传统的生物力学研究仅限于实验室为基础的研究与小参与人数，防止大规模的数据见解正常人，？正常吗体育，？在正常设置下。迫切需要通过生活来提高我们对女性运动生物力学的理解，并开发相关技术和产品，以支持所有年龄段的女性参与包容性体育运动。MISFIT项目旨在通过开发专为老年妇女设计的新运动分析服务来解决健康老龄化领域的这一差距。这将提供？循证？信息？关于？定制的锻炼制度？然后呢？伤害预防？到哪里去？继续支持？安全参与？身体活动。MISFIT将建立在KYMIRA的基础上？屡获殊荣的运动服装解决方案，这将是适应老年女性。项目？用途？智能服装？配备传感器和压力测量鞋垫，捕捉和整合运动（运动），动力（力）和？日常运动中的生理数据。MISFIT将能够进行大规模的数据收集，以提供对损伤机制和最佳运动方案的人口水平的见解，随着女性年龄的增长。MISFIT将翻译数据和学习，为用户提供体育咨询服务。在进一步的创新，屡获殊荣的运动鞋开发商伊达体育将使用该服务，以告知以用户为中心的设计一系列新的运动鞋？支持？女人吗？继续参与体育活动随着年龄的增长