Comparison of Multiple Object Tracking Performance Between Professional and Amateur eSport Players as Well as Traditional Sportsmen

Wechsler, Konstantin; Bickmann, Peter; Rudolf, Kevin; Tholl, Chuck; Froböse, Ingo; Grieben, Christopher

doi:10.4018/ijer.20210101.oa2

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“…Similarly, three studies (Bickman et al, 2020(Bickman et al, , 2021Wechsler et al, 2021) found that pro-gamers perform better than non-professionals due to better hand-eye coordination, mental strength, response time, game knowledge, and tactical comprehension. However, Sousa et al (2020) observed that pro-gamers' faster response times are marred by less accuracy and impulsiveness.…”

Section: Physiology and Health Of Pro-gamersmentioning

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Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review

Bihari

Pattanaik

2023

Games and Culture

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Professional gaming is organized competitive digital gameplay supported by advertisers and businesses. With its rising popularity and spectatorship, virtual gaming as a profession is now a reality. The aim of this paper is to evaluate peer-reviewed articles from the past two decades that empirically examine gaming as a profession or the myriad facets of being a professional gamer published in scholarly journals. The themes that emerge from the results of the included studies ( n = 32) are (a) the socio-cultural appeal of gaming as a profession, (b) socio-psychological elements of pro-gamers’ everyday lives, and (c) the health and physiology of pro-gamers. It is found that the literature on health and physiology ( n = 14) overshadows other dimensions of pro-gaming in academic research. In conclusion, studies must reflect on gamers’ legal status as working professionals, their organizational contracts, and the legality of the industry country by country to fill the research gap.

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Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review

Bihari

Pattanaik

2023

Games and Culture

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“…Sports scientists have studied the association between sports experience (expertise) and visual attention during the last decade, and those studies have yielded mixed results. A number of studies have demonstrated that expert athletes exhibit better visual attention performance than novice players ( Heppe et al, 2016 ; Voss et al, 2010 ; Wechsler et al, 2021 ). It has also been widely demonstrated that extensive sports training may improve cognitive function and may lead to plasticity changes in brain structure and function ( Etnier et al, 2006 ; Kramer & Erickson, 2007 ).…”

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Association between sports expertise and visual attention in male and female soccer players

Jin,

Ji,

Wang

et al. 2023

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Background Visual attention plays a crucial role in daily living and in sports, affecting an athlete’s performance and thus, potentially, the outcome of a match. However, studies assessing the association between the level of sports expertise and visual attention have yielded mixed results. This study was conducted to examine whether visual attention could be developed with increased sports expertise, and whether visual attention differed between male athletes and female athletes. Methods A total of 128 participants were included in this study: 64 first-level national soccer athletes recruited from college soccer teams (considered elite athletes; 32 men and 32 women with similar soccer performance requirements and training experience), and 64 physical education college students with limited soccer experience (considered novice athletes; 32 men and 32 women with matched soccer experience). To assess visual attention, we used a multiple object tracking (MOT) task with four targets among a total of 10 objects moving at a fixed speed of 10°/s in random directions across a computer monitor screen. Tracking accuracy on the MOT task was calculated for each participant as the proportion of correctly selected targets. A univariate analysis of variance was performed, with group (expert, novice) and sex (male, female) as independent variables, and tracking accuracy on the MOT task as the dependent variable to assess whether sports expertise or sex influenced visual attention. Simple effects tests followed by comparisons with Bonferroni corrections were used, and effect size calculations were performed using Cohen’s f statistic. Results Tracking accuracy on the MOT task was significantly affected by sports expertise (F(1,124) = 91.732, p < 0.001, ηP2 = 0.425), with accuracy among expert soccer athletes superior to that among novice soccer athletes. Moreover, a statistically significant interaction between sports expertise and sex was detected (F(1,124) = 7.046, p = 0.009, η P2= 0.054). Better tracking performance was observed for male soccer players (mean [SD], 0.39 [0.12]) than for female soccer players (mean [SD], 0.27 [0.08]); p < 0.01; d=1.17; r = 0.51) but only in the novice group. No significant sex difference was detected in tracking performance between elite male soccer athletes (mean [SD], 0.51 [0.09]) and elite female soccer athletes (mean [SD], 0.49 [0.11]). Conclusion These findings confirm previous results indicating that long-term extensive sports training develops visual attention as assessed by MOT performance and extend previous findings to include soccer athletes. The findings of a sex difference in visual attention among novice soccer players but not among elite soccer athletes who had similar performance requirements and training experience suggest that long-term extensive training may minimize the sex difference in visual attention.

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