A review of artificial intelligence for sports: Technologies and applications
July 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated remarkable power in transforming various industries. It is clear that AI has shown promising results in enhancing athletic performance, competition management,...
The application of smart wearable devices in the detection of sports energy consumption: A review
April 2025
With the development of smart wearable device technologies, their application in the field of sports, especially energy consumption monitoring, are increasingly widespread. This paper comprehensively...
Multimodal physiological signals from wearable sensors for affective computing: A systematic review
October 2025
In recent years, advances in wearable devices have driven the rapid development of multimodal physiological signals for affective computing. In this paper, we systematically review 34 relevant studies...
Understanding the variability and determinants of corner kick effectiveness in professional football: A comparative and predictive analysis
July 2025
The aims of this study were twofold: 1) to compare the differences in the characteristics of corner kick goals across three different European leagues and 2) to identify the main determinants of corner...
Mechanisms underlying the role of aerobic exercise in emotion regulation and its prescriptive considerations for promoting mental and physical health
January 2026
With the increasing prevalence of emotional disorders and mental health challenges, identifying safe, effective, and widely applicable intervention strategies has become a pressing concern in public...
Technology-based sports performance enhancement: A conference review
April 2025
This review synthesizes the keynote presentations delivered at the 2024 International Conference on Sports Technology and Performance Analysis (ICSTPA 2024), highlighting advances in the interdisciplinary...
Did technology break the game? Effects of the video assistant referee (VAR) on elite European soccer
April 2026
The addition of the video assistant referee (VAR) arguably represents the most significant change in the recent history of professional soccer. In this paper, we investigate whether the VAR has affected...
Drone-based human motion capture: A review
January 2026
Human motion capture (HMC) plays a vital role in fields such as biomechanics, sports, and rehabilitation. However, the traditional HMC systems are often limited by their high costs, indoor constraints,...
Wearable physiological monitoring of physical exercise and mental health: A systematic review
January 2025
Mental disorders – characterised by significant impairments in cognition, emotional regulation and behaviour – increasingly are contributing to global economic burdens. Emerging evidence supports the...
Offline multi-agent reinforcement learning for evaluating and optimizing football attacking strategies against low-block defences
April 2026
Applying reinforcement learning to real-world multi-agent systems remains challenging due to coordination complexity, partial observability, and the constraints of learning from static datasets. Football...
Decoding the shooter’s brain: A systematic review of precision shooting sports based on EEG data
January 2026
EEG is a noninvasive neurophysiological detection tool with high temporal resolution that provides rich physiological information and has received widespread attention in the field of sports science....
Differences in strength- and power-related capacities across biological maturation stages in young swimmers
April 2026
In swimming, dry-land strength and power underpin key performance actions (starts and turns). Because these capacities change markedly during adolescence, accounting for biological maturation is essential...
A hand exoskeleton with linear motors (HELM) for pathological tremor suppression of fingers
April 2025
Pathological tremors may significantly inconvenience patients suffering from a variety of neurological diseases. Wearable technologies such as robotic exoskeletons have been used as promising methods...
Estimation of three-dimensional ground reaction forces using low-cost smart insoles
January 2025
Estimating three-dimensional ground reaction forces (GRFs) is critical for health monitoring, exercise science and rehabilitation. Traditional methods such as force plates and instrumented treadmills...
Evolving landscapes of artificial intelligence in sports: Insights from scientometric and altmetric analyses
April 2026
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised various domains, including sports science. This study presents comprehensive scientometric and altmetric analyses of AI applications...
Hydrogels for emerging wearable sweat monitoring devices
October 2025
As a vital biofluid, sweat is widely recognized as an ideal diagnostic medium for health monitoring because of its non-invasive sampling and easy accessibility. Hydrogels have emerged as promising materials...
Limiting match congestion and implementing evidence-based recommendations to protect performance in elite soccer
January 2026
In professional soccer, injury incidence remains a major concern for both player performance and player welfare. Elite teams with 25-player squads face an average of 50 injuries per season, equating...
Domain-guided mixture of experts for EEG-based emotion recognition
April 2026
Human emotions are closely linked to specific regions of the, and recent studies have increasingly focused on extracting regional representations for EEG-based emotion recognition (EER). However, the...
Analysis of game performance by game period in men’s elite handball
April 2026
To examine whether offensive game performance varies according to the interaction between the match period and match outcome and to identify the determinants of winning outcomes across different game...
Differences in match-running performances across racial groups in professional soccer players
October 2025
The aim of the current study is to examine whether match-running performance differs across players of different ethnic origins in elite soccer. Physical and technical performance data from all matches...
Does the FIFA 11 + warm-up program positively shape both the physical and small-sided game performance of youth football players?
January 2025
This study examined the impact of the FIFA 11 + warm-up program on both physical performance and small-sided game (SSG) outcomes in youth soccer players. Thirty male players, aged 11 to 15, were randomly...
The application of machine learning in precise immune function monitoring of rowers: Building an interpretable XGBoost model based on blood markers used for training assessment
January 2026
High-intensity training can suppress immune function in rowers; thus, monitoring immune function merits attention. However, in routine athlete monitoring, monitoring immune function is often low priority,...
Using massive spatialtemporal data to analyse NBA match performance under different possession outcomes
January 2025
This study aimed to explore the ball, player, and team spatialtemporal patterns that distinguish different basketball ball possession outcomes. Event, ball and player tracking data from 632 NBA games...
Acute effects of executive load manipulation on working memory and cognitive flexibility following a dual task in semi-professional football players
July 2025
Athletes in open-skill sports such as football must constantly process information, adapt to changing situations, and make decisions under pressure. To do so, cognitive abilities such as working memory...
Hoop-MSSL: Multitask self-supervised representation learning on basketball spatiotemporal data
October 2025
Observing and identifying on-court behaviours by basketball players, who engage in intricate spatiotemporal interactions with their teammates and the opponent players, have long been considered challenging...