The association between visual exploration and passing performance in high-level U13 and U23 football players

McGuckian, Thomas B.; Beavan, Adam; Mayer, Jan; Chalkley, Daniel; Pepping, Gert‐Jan

doi:10.1080/24733938.2020.1769174

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“…A head turn in sports is defined as a fast rotation of the head around the vertical axis of the body, exceeding an angular velocity of 125° s −1 . The HTF is the equivalent time-normalized parameter, given in turns per second [ 16 , 25 ].…”

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“…It quantifies the absolute radian measure between the beginning and end of a detected head turn in degree. Likewise, the HTD describes the duration of a head turn [ 16 , 25 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The result could be confirmed by the applied algorithm, detecting the same amount of head turns. Several follow up studies adapted this approach to investigate the effect of VEA in relation to affordance [ 25 ], on-ball performance [ 46 ], playing role [ 47 ] and passing performance [ 16 ]. To explore the latter, McGuckian et al conducted a study in which fourteen high-skilled U13 and U23 soccer players conducted a 32-trial sequence within the Footbonaut.…”

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“…During the study the head turn count, frequency and excursion were measured during and before ball possession. Results could show that a faster performance can be associated with a higher number of head turns before ball possession and a lower number of head turns during ball possession [ 16 ].…”

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“…Taking an easily applicable approach, the potential of head movement metrics within VEA is not holistically explored. First research in this area was able to identify parameters like the frequency or excursion of head turns to be relevant [ 16 ]. Nevertheless, these studies often lack to provide realistic scenarios, displaying simple video-based stimuli, or show a low reproducibility (e.g., on-pitch evaluations).…”

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Assessing Visual Exploratory Activity of Athletes in Virtual Reality Using Head Motion Characteristics

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Maximizing performance success in sports is about continuous learning and adaptation processes. Aside from physiological, technical and emotional performance factors, previous research focused on perceptual skills, revealing their importance for decision-making. This includes deriving relevant environmental information as a result of eye, head and body movement interaction. However, to evaluate visual exploratory activity (VEA), generally utilized laboratory settings have restrictions that disregard the representativeness of assessment environments and/or decouple coherent cognitive and motor tasks. In vivo studies, however, are costly and hard to reproduce. Furthermore, the application of elaborate methods like eye tracking are cumbersome to implement and necessitate expert knowledge to interpret results correctly. In this paper, we introduce a virtual reality-based reproducible assessment method allowing the evaluation of VEA. To give insights into perceptual-cognitive processes, an easily interpretable head movement-based metric, quantifying VEA of athletes, is investigated. Our results align with comparable in vivo experiments and consequently extend them by showing the validity of the implemented approach as well as the use of virtual reality to determine characteristics among different skill levels. The findings imply that the developed method could provide accurate assessments while improving the control, validity and interpretability, which in turn informs future research and developments.

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“…It quantifies the absolute radian measure between the beginning and end of a detected head turn in degree. Likewise, the HTD describes the duration of a head turn [ 16 , 25 ].…”

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confidence: 99%