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• Beyond Adaptive Sports: Challenges & Opportunities to Improve Accessibility and Analytics

  Rushil Khurana, Ashley Wang, Patrick Carrington · 2021 · ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  While sports data analytics has become a multi-billion dollar industry transforming training, strategy, and refereeing in able-bodied sports, adaptive sports have been largely left behind by this technological revolution. Khurana et al. interviewed 18 participants across six…

  adaptive sports · Paralympic · wheelchair sports · blind sports · sports analytics

• SpokeSense: Developing a Real-Time Sensing Platform for Wheelchair Sports

  Patrick Carrington, Gierad Laput, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2020 · SIGACCESS Access. Comput.

  This paper presents SpokeSense, a wheel-mounted sensing platform designed to track and analyze wheelchair basketball performance in real time. While substantial work has gone into sensing and analytics for mainstream sports, wheelchair sports have received relatively little…

  wheelchair sports · adaptive sports · wheelchair basketball · wearable technology · sensors

• Leveraging Shared Control to Empower People with Tetraplegia to Participate in Extreme Sports

  Ahmad Alsaleem, Ross Imburgia, Mateo Godinez, Andrew Merryweather, Roger Altizer, Tamara Denning, Jeffery Rosenbluth, Stephen Trapp, Jason Wiese · 2019 · Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

  This paper describes the iterative design and field evaluation of Tetra-Ski, a power-assisted adaptive ski chair that enables people with tetraplegia to participate in alpine skiing — a high-risk, high-independence activity previously inaccessible to this population. Existing…

  tetraplegia · spinal cord injury · adaptive sports · shared control · sip-and-puff

• Exploring the Data Tracking and Sharing Preferences of Wheelchair Athletes

  Patrick Carrington, Gierad Laput, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18)

  This paper explores how wheelchair basketball players want to use and share automatically tracked performance data, using a prototype sensor device as a discussion probe. The researchers interviewed 15 wheelchair basketball players (mean age 33, 1 female, 3 who also coached)…

  wheelchair accessibility · adaptive sports · fitness tracking · data privacy · wearable technology

• Understanding Fatigue and Stamina Management Opportunities and Challenges in Wheelchair Basketball

  Patrick Carrington, Denzel Ketter, Amy Hurst · 2017 · Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This paper investigates the current use and future potential of wearable fitness technologies for stamina and fatigue management in wheelchair basketball — a team sport originally created for paraplegic athletes that now includes people with a range of physical abilities. The…

  adaptive sports · wearable technology · wheelchair · fitness tracking · physical disability

• "But, I don't take steps": Examining the Inaccessibility of Fitness Trackers for Wheelchair Athletes

  Patrick Carrington, Kevin Chang, Helena Mentis, Amy Hurst · 2015 · ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper investigates why wheelchair athletes show low adoption of wearable fitness trackers despite interest in tracking physical activity. The authors interviewed five wheelchair athletes (participating in hand cycling, rugby, basketball, and tennis) and three physical and…

  wheelchair · adaptive sports · fitness tracking · wearable computing · Quantified Self

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