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

在生活的许多领域，老年女性的需求在很大程度上被忽视了，尤其是在运动和锻炼方面。然而，随着年龄的增长，保持女性的健康和活动水平对身体健康、幸福感和精神健康有着改变生活和持久的好处。在老年女性人口中，保持身体活动的一个特殊障碍是下肢疼痛和受伤的风险。50岁以上的女性在开始和/或保持身体活动方面面临着特殊的障碍。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得不到很好的支持，这些技术、运动服装和鞋类往往是为年轻人开发的，并向年轻人销售。事实上，大多数与运动和运动有关的伤害预防研究是在年轻人(通常是男性)身上进行的，主要是在精英运动的背景下进行的。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参与者人数较少的实验室研究，阻止了在正常环境下进行正常运动的正常人的大规模数据洞察。迫切需要在生活中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运动。项目错位旨在通过开发专门为老年女性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。这将支持provide?evidence-based?information?regarding?bespoke?exercise继续安全地参与体育活动。MISFIT将建立在KYMIRA获奖运动服装解决方案的基础上，该解决方案将适用于老年女性。该项目使用智能服装，配备传感器和压力测量鞋垫，捕捉并整合日常运动中的运动学(运动)、运动学(力)和生理数据。失配将使大规模数据收集成为可能，从而为女性年龄增长提供人群水平的损伤机制和最佳锻炼方案的洞察。Misfit将翻译数据和学习内容，为用户提供体育咨询服务。在进一步的创新中，屡获殊荣的运动鞋开发商艾达体育将利用这项服务，向用户提供以用户为中心的新运动鞋设计方案，以支持女性随着年龄的增长继续参与体育运动。

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.