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

对于所有的跑步运动（以及许多其他运动），向前推进的方式来自于脚-表面的相互作用。多年来，在技术上更复杂的设备（例如运动鞋和表面）的开发和技术上更复杂的运动员的开发中已经取得了许多进步，通过改善运动员的体格和运动技术，更好地提供力量和耐力。研究在这些“人的因素”和“设备”的发展中发挥了很大的作用。发展最高质量、一致和有效的运动技术将最大限度地提高个人的表现。他们通过训练和比赛的条件是在适当的时候（例如奥运会）达到最佳表现水平的关键组成部分。此外，他们在过度训练或意外事故中受伤后的仔细恢复是实现其潜力的另一个重要因素。教练和其他支援团队（例如物理治疗师）必须在运动员的技术发展和伤病保护/康复方面提供非常集中的建议和帮助。运动员的支持团队将利用他们所掌握的任何工具来帮助“测量”运动员的能力并进一步发展他们。然而，到目前为止，运动技术和推进力学的评估已被限制为间接技术（视觉，高速视频等）和直接测量的脚表面接触力的组合，但在受控的实验室环境。研究和开发的下一个合乎逻辑的步骤是通过开发完全仪器化的鞋（或鞋垫）来提供运动员训练期间足部表面相互作用的高质量信息。这种先进的工具将为个人带来巨大的好处，既能提高他们的表现，又能为他们（更可控的）受伤康复提供独特的反馈。本可行性研究旨在解决以下问题。我们如何为运动员和他们的教练提供适当的（机械）反馈，以帮助他们提高成绩？这项研究旨在解决这个问题，首先确定详细的用户需求，然后利用现有技术来实现这些需求的可行性。这项研究将产生一个先进的跑步“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，以实现一个完全仪器化的鞋的目标。可行性研究是必要的，因为这个问题包括许多复杂的测量和解释，是创新的，在其应用精英水平的运动表现，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，以设计和生产适当的仪器鞋。

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.