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

对于所有的跑步运动（和许多其他运动），向前推进的方式来自于脚表面的相互作用。多年来，在技术更复杂的设备（例如运动鞋和表面）的发展方面取得了许多进步，通过改进运动员的体格和运动技术，技术更成熟的运动员获得了更好的力量传递和耐力。研究在这些“人为因素”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调节是在适当的时间（例如奥运会）达到最佳表现水平的关键组成部分。此外，他们小心地从通常由过度训练或事故造成的任何伤害中恢复过来，是实现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/恢复方面提供非常集中的建议和帮助。运动员的支持团队将利用他们掌握的任何工具来帮助“测量”运动员的能力并进一步发展。然而，到目前为止，对运动技术和推进力学的评估仅限于间接技术（视觉，高速视频等）和足面接触力的直接测量，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完全仪器化的鞋（或鞋垫），在运动员训练期间提供足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，既可以提高他们的表现，又可以为他们（更可控的）伤病康复提供独特的反馈。本可行性研究旨在解决以下问题。我们如何向运动员和他们的教练提供适当的（机械的）反馈，让他们了解地面跑步的特点，以帮助他们取得成绩？该研究旨在通过首先确定详细的用户需求，然后确定利用当前技术实现这些需求的可行性来解决这个问题。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，以实现完全仪器化的鞋子的目标。可行性研究是必要的，因为这个问题包含了许多测量和解释的复杂性，在应用于精英水平的运动表现方面是创新的，并且必然是多学科的。预期通过可行性研究，将形成一个可实现的研究框架，以设计和生产装有适当仪器的鞋类。

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.