Single camera analyses in studying pattern forming dynamics of player interacti...

• Author(s): Duarte, Ricardo ; Fernandes, Orlando ; Folgado, Hugo ; Araújo, Duarte
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/9286
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English
• Editor(s): Davids, Keith; Hristovski, Robert; Araújo, Duarte; Balagué Serre, Natalia; Passos, Pedro

Description

A network of patterned interactions between players characterises team ball sports. Thus, interpersonal coordination patterns are an important topic in the study of performance in such sports. A very useful method has been the study of inter-individual interactions captured by a single camera filming an extended performance area. The appropriate collection of positional data allows investigating the pattern forming dynamics emerging in different performance sub-phases of team ball sports. This chapter outlines (i) a simple and flexible motion analysis procedure to capture the movement displacement trajectories of performers using a single camera and, (ii) exemplar data illustrating the analysis methods employed in the identification of pattern forming dynamics in a 3vs3 sub-phase of association football near the scoring areas.