Shoe Signature Monitoring for Advanced Running Technique (ShoeSMART)(Feasibility Proposal)

对于所有跑步运动(和许多其他运动)来说，向前推进的方式来自于脚与表面的相互作用。多年来，在开发技术更先进的设备(例如运动鞋和运动面)和更技术先进的运动员方面取得了许多进展，通过改善运动体质和运动技术，提供了更好的动力和耐力。研究在这些“人的因素”和“设备”的发展中发挥了很大作用。最高质量、一致和有效的动作技术的发展将使个人的表现最大化。他们通过训练和比赛进行调适是在适当的时间(例如奥运会)达到顶峰水平的关键因素。此外，他们小心翼翼地从任何受伤中恢复过来，这通常是由于过度训练或事故造成的，这是发挥他们潜力的另一个重要因素。教练和其他支持团队(例如物理治疗师)需要在运动员的技术发展和受伤保护/恢复方面提供非常有针对性的建议和帮助。运动员的支持团队将利用他们可以使用的任何工具来帮助“衡量”运动员的能力，并进一步发展他们。然而，到目前为止，对运动技术和推进力学的评估一直局限于间接技术(视觉、高速视频等)和直接测量脚-表面接触力的组合，但在受控的实验室环境中。研究和开发的下一个合乎逻辑的步骤是通过开发一种全仪表化的鞋(或鞋垫)来提供运动员训练期间脚与表面相互作用的高质量信息。这种先进的工具将给个人带来巨大的好处，既能提高他们的表现，又能为他们(更受控制的)受伤康复提供独特的反馈。这项可行性研究旨在解决以下问题。我们如何向运动员和他们的教练提供适当的(机械)反馈，他们的脚到地面的跑步特征，以帮助提高成绩？这项研究的目的是解决这个问题，首先确定详细的用户需求，然后利用现有技术实现这些要求的可行性。这项研究将产生一种先进的跑步‘模型’，用于测量和提高性能，评估当前的技术，并详细说明必要的进一步研究和开发的要求，以实现全仪表化鞋的目标。需要进行可行性研究，因为这个问题包括许多复杂的测量和解释，在应用于精英水平的运动表现方面具有创新性，而且必然是多学科的。预计通过可行性研究，将形成一个可实现的研究框架，以设计和生产适当仪表化的鞋类。

For all running sports (and many others) the means of propulsion forwards comes from the foot-surface interaction. Many advances have been made over the years in the development of more technically sophisticated equipment (for example the athletic shoes and the surfaces) and more technically sophisticated athletes from better power delivery and endurance through improved athletic physique and motion technique. Research has played a large part in these 'human factor' and 'equipment' developments. The development of the highest quality, consistent and effective motion technique will maximise an individual's performance. Their conditioning through training and competition is the key building block to achieving their peak levels of performance at the appropriate time (e.g. for an Olympics). In addition, their careful recovery from any injury, often caused by over-training or accidents, is a further vital factor in realising their potential. The coaches and other support team (e.g. physiotherapists) are required to provide very focussed advice and assistance in both the technical development and injury protection/recovery of the athletes. The athlete's support team will utilise whatever tools are at their disposal to help 'measure' the athlete's abilities and develop them further. However, to date the assessment of the athletic motion technique and propulsion mechanics has been limited to a combination of indirect techniques (visual, high-speed video and so on) and direct measurement of foot-surface contact forces but in a controlled laboratory environment. The next logical step in research and development is to provide high quality information of the foot-surface interaction during the athlete's training by the development of a fully instrumented shoe (or insole). Such an advanced tool would reap enormous benefits to individuals to both enhance their performance and provide unique feedback on their (more controlled) rehabilitation from injury. This feasibility study aims to address the following question. How can we provide appropriate (mechanical) feedback to athletes and their coaches of their foot to surface running characteristics to aid performance?The study aims to address this question by determining firstly the detailed user requirements and then the feasibility of utilising current technology to achieve these. The study will produce an advanced running 'model' for measurement and enhancement of performance, evaluate current technology, and detail the requirements for the necessary further research and development to achieve the goal of a fully instrumented shoe. A feasibility study is required as this problem comprises many complexities of measurement and interpretation, is innovative in its application for elite level athletic performance, and is necessarily multidisciplinary. It is anticipated that through the feasibility study an achievable research framework will be formed to design and produce suitably instrumented footwear.