Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Kenan Song

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Seed Grant Awardee: Kenan Song

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A Novel 3D Printing Mechanism for Personalized Sports Medication

Kenan Song | Fulton Schools of Engineering

The concept of personalized medication according to a person’s physiological, genetical, and biological conditions is on the research agenda of pharmaceutical science. 1. Individuals respond differently to various medical cares, and they may experience more or less benefit/risk associated with particular drugs. 2. Personalized medication will meet the needs and preferences regarding an individual’s health status and body type requirements; for example, 3D printing can customize medicine for seniors, athletes, and expectant mothers via varying drug component levels, sizes, shapes, flavors, or surface finishes, facilitating compliance of the treatments. 3. 3D printing is an additive manufacturing process to create three-dimensional objects, including but not limited to, personalized medicine, implants and customized medical devices that accelerate the rehabilitation, prevent disease, or improve performance of sportsperson from varied groups.

This proposal aims to develop a novel 3D printing protocol for personalized medication and understand the printing mechanism for controlled drug loading and release behaviors. The in-house designed 3D printer consists of multi-tool fabrication procedures, namely, (i) projection micro-stereolithography (PμSLA), (ii) fine fiber spinning-based fused deposition modeling (FFS-FDM), and (iii) flow-assisted inkjet (FaJet). The combinatory uses of these hybrid printing techniques will selectively place the drug carriers with different positional and orientational orders for drug delivery efficiency management, which is challenging to achieve in the traditional pharmacy industry. The arrangement of drug carriers is through the generation of confinement systems at each printing layer (micron scale) within which to assemble drug carriers (nanoscale). The PμSLA or FFSFDM method will build 3D microscale lattices, and FaJet will fill these lattice vacancies with drug-loaded carrier inks. The hypothesis is that fluid dynamics during inkjet spraying aligns the carriers upon ejection, and multiple other factors may either preserve or relax these preferred particle configurations.

Published Work

Alignment of Graphene Nanoplatelets in Poly (vinyl alcohol) Nanocomposite Fibers with Controlled Stepwise Interfacial Exfoliations

Last updated March 2020.

Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Allison Ross

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Seed Grant Awardee: Allison Ross

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Sport, Sense of Community and School Climate

Allison Ross | School of Community Resources and Development

Despite the many positive outcomes associated with youth sport participation, opportunities for involvement remain plagued by inequities associated with factors such as income, race, gender, and geographic location. The comprehensive sport-centric approach (CSCA) is an innovative and unique model of learning that incorporates and emphasizes sport during and after the school day with the goal of creating healthier students and a more connected school community. The CSCA was developed as a strategy to combat inequity by providing a free sports-based program throughout the comprehensive school day. This inaugural CSCA program was developed at a school where more than 90% of students are eligible for free and reduced-price meals (FRPM). Students at this school are given the opportunity to become involved in sport, and to benefit from being part of a strong and healthy community they might not have otherwise been able to access or afford.

The purpose of this research is to specifically measure the association between participation in a CSCA program and perceptions of school climate (SC) and sense of community (SOC) – critical components of student social and emotional health. A matched control design will be utilized to isolate the effect of the CSCA. Additionally, the relationships will be examined by gender, grade level, and race/ethnicity to evaluate possible moderating effects. Disadvantages in socioeconomic status by racial and ethnic minorities contribute significantly to health disparities because disadvantaged children are exposed to more stressors and have fewer buffers to counter that stress. However, research has consistently conveyed that having safe and supportive relationships and environments are two mechanisms to protect against these risk factors. This study will investigate if sport engagement at school as part of a CSCA can serve as a catalyst to build a healthy, safe, and engaging environment for all students.

Published Work

Champion Schools – South Mountain Comprehensive sports-centric approach and motivation 2018 Report

Last updated March 2020.

Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Hyunglae Lee

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Seed Grant Awardee: Hyunglae Lee

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Biomechanics-Based Modeling of Multi-Dimensional Foot-Ankle Mechanics for the Development of Transformable Smart Shoes (Phase Two

Hyunglae Lee | School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy (Video)

With the advancement of human movement sciences and footwear technology (e.g., sensor, actuator, and control systems), we envision the development of transformable smart shoes that will be quite common by 2036. Transformable smart shoes will have the unique capabilities of (1) tracking foot–ankle mechanics in real-time during physical activities, and (2) adaptively transforming the mechanical properties of the shoes in a task-dependent manner (e.g., actively supporting the ankle as needed). Development of these innovations allows us to achieve two paramount goals in sports activities: maximizing human performance and minimizing the risk of injuries. Ultimately, this will not only improve the quality of sports activities for everyone, but also can enhance the quality of daily activities for the elderly and disabled.

Objectives: As a first step to achieve this overarching vision, we have successfully characterized foot–ankle mechanics during quiet standing and normal walking. Based on this success, we aim to (1) extend the characterization to various lower extremity tasks and (2) develop simple yet competent models for foot–ankle mechanics. These aims are essential for the design and control of smart shoes in the next phase of this continuing research. Successful completion of this research will advance scientific knowledge on how multi-dimensional foot–ankle mechanics are modulated during various lower extremity tasks. This knowledge will not only provide the basis for the development of transformable smart shoes in the next phase of the research but also directly impact current best practices in footwear design. Furthermore, this research has the potential to benefit wearable devices in many fields (e.g., ankle foot orthoses, ankle braces, and lower limb exoskeleton robots) with sports, clinical, and industrial applications.

Published Work

Environment-Dependent Modulation of Human Ankle Stiffness and its Implication for the Design of Lower Extremity Robots

Sex Differences in 2-DOF Human Ankle Stiffness in Relaxed and Contracted Muscles

Last updated March 2020.

Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Hanqing Jiang

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Seed Grant Awardee: Hanqing Jiang

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Fabric-based wearable and washable electromyography (EMG) devices

Hanqing Jiang| School for the Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

In this project, we aim to develop fabric-based wearable and washable electromyography (EMG) devices. EMG devices have been applied to the study of muscular function and coordination in different movements and postures, in skilled actions as well as during training, such as the track and/or soccer field, as well as gymnastics. The knowledge of such muscular action in all its aspects, its evaluation, and its feedback would offer great opportunities to optimize the movement, sports materials, training possibilities and, eventually sports performance. This project aims to transform the EMG measurements from the labs to fields, providing real-time assessment to sports.

Published Work

Conductive and Elastic 3D Helical Fibers for Use in Washable and Wearable Electronics

Last updated March 2020.

Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Panagiotis Polygerinos

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Seed Grant Awardee: Panagiotis Polygerinos

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Empowering Knee Rehabilitation and Assistance of Athletes with a Soft Robotic Exosuit

This project will focus on developing and evaluating a novel undergarment soft robotic lower-limb exosuit to: (1) provide advanced robotic assisted rehabilitation therapy to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injured athletes, (2) provide injury mitigation to athletes by increasing proprioception, and (3) provide resistance to athletes’ joints and muscles to explore the idea of a wearable muscle strengthening exosuit. We will make use of soft robotic technologies that offer proven advantages in the field of wearables to counterbalance the disadvantages found in traditional rigid robotic exoskeletons that are usually bulky, heavy, expensive, and difficult to align with biological joints.

Published Work

Last updated June 2019.

Sport 2036

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Seed Grant Awardee: Yezhou Yang

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Seed Grant Awardee: Yezhou Yang

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Non-invasive Performance Tracking with Smart Cameras

Yezhou Yang | School of Computing Informatics, and Decision System Engineering

The overall goal of this GSI Sport 2036 seed project plan is to study and validate that both the athletes and the general public can benefit from using the low-cost camera-first and non-invasive performance tracking solutions. These solutions can 1) lower the equipment costs significantly for performance tracking; 2) assist the trainers and coaches to design more efficient training plans, and 3) benefit a wide range of sports activities participants from a variety of demographical backgrounds due to its low-cost and easy-to-set-up nature.

Published Work

Modularized Textual Grounding for Counterfactual Resilience

Collision-free Trajectory Planning in Human-robot Interaction through Hand Movement Prediction from Vision

Last updated March 2020.

Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Jorge Caviedes

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Seed Grant Awardee: Jorge Caviedes

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Wireless Sensors for Spine Posture Monitoring During Exercise to Enable Biofeedback

Jorge Caviedes | School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering (Video)

Monitoring spine posture during unsupervised therapeutic, athletic and fitness exercise is essential to achieve optimum results. The main objective of this work is to introduce wearable sensors and supporting mobile applications capable of providing biofeedback in real-time. The method includes algorithms trained to recognize the unique signature of the specific exercise and subject. Using a mobile app, the real-time execution can be monitored and the subject can receive instant personalized feedback in the form of a multimedia signal (e.g. auditory, visual or tactile). The applications of this research include intelligent garments, and large scale studies enabled by wireless data collection and analysis.

Published Work

Wearable Sensor Array Design for Spine Posture Monitoring During Exercise Incorporating Biofeedback

Last updated March 2020.

Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Michael McBeath

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Seed Grant Awardee: Michael McBeath

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Why Observers Perceive the Same Event Differently: Testing the Effects of Reference Frame and Conscious Agency in Sports

Michael McBeath (video)

Sports settings can serve as powerful metaphors for important behavioral phenomena,
and provide simple, cleanly-defined tests of significant, generalizable psychological principles.
Vantage is a key element in judging events, but interpretations may also be a function of an
observer’s extent of control. Establishing systematic reasons why people's experiences differ in
fundamental ways can have far-reaching promise for reducing disputes and promoting a better
understanding of how to cope with others from different perspectives.

Published Work

Sport 2036

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Seed Grant Awardee: Alaina Zanin

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Seed Grant Awardee: Alaina Zanin

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Negotiating Feminine Athlete Identities Through Resistant Youth Sport Interventions (PHASE TWO)

Alaina Zanin | Hugh Downs School of Human Communication

Worldwide young women are dropping out of athletics by the age of 14 at a rate two times higher than their male counterparts (Sabo & Veliz, 2008). A wide range of empirical research has demonstrated sport participation yields significant positive outcomes for young women. Participation in youth sports has been shown to have immediate positive effects on self-esteem and body image, as well as reduce risks of drug abuse, depression, cancer, obesity and eating disorders (Sabo & Veliz, 2008). Social development skills such as leadership, teamwork, and conflict resolution also increase as a result of youth sport participation (Danish, 2002). Taken together, this body of evidence highlights the positive effects of youth sport participation, but also the possible negative effects of non-participation specifically on young women in underserved communities.

This is Phase 2 of a project funded by the Global Sport Institute. The purpose of both phases of this project is to understand how processes of identification might facilitate or create barriers to participation in youth sport and development programs and to identify means for communicative intervention. Findings will provide recommendations for youth sport programs (a) to increase recruitment, retention, and long-term participation, (b) to assess accurately how youth sport programs affect participants’ levels of activity, and (c) to document turning points in girls’ identification processes related to their participation in sport. This research will provide insight into how processes of identification might function as a barrier to participation, as well as offer practical communicative solutions for increasing participation in youth sport and development programs.

Based on Phase I findings and other national statistical data on female participation in youth sports (e.g., The Aspen Institute, 2017; Sabo, 2004), Phase II of this study will focus on girls ages 14-16 years-old to understand what identity, social, and developmental shifts might be related to large sport drop-out rates among girls. This data collection will document youth sport participants and non-sport participants’ identity negotiation over the course of a sport season (or 12 weeks) to understand shifts in identity and messages they are receiving from salient identity targets (e.g., peers, parents, athletic heroes in the media). This phase of data collection meets the GSI 2018 and 2019 call for research that focuses on advancing diversity and social justice.

In addition, several studies have found that participation in youth sports increases activity levels based on self-report data (e.g., Gabriel, DeBate, High, & Racine, 2011). However, researchers have not experimentally evaluated activity levels with the use of activity tracker technology within youth sport programs. Not only would activity tracker data yield more reliable and accurate results, this data would demonstrate if differences exist between participants in activity levels in comparison to girls who choose not to participate youth sports.

Moreover, given our longitudinal mixed-method study design, the activity tracker data would be compared with turning points in participant’s identity negotiation. Again, these insights could be used to advance diversity and social justice related to turning points in young girls’ identity negotiation.

Given these previously findings, Phase II of this study will answer the following research questions:

RQ1: How do female youth sport participants manage a positive athletic identity over time?

RQ2: In what ways do female youth sport participants differ in identity negotiation over time compared to non-sport participant peers?

Video of Alaina Zanin - Seed Grant Recipient

Published Work

(Re)Conceptualizing Nested Identities Through Oppositional Identity Discourses in Girls Youth Sport

Athletic identity transformation: A qualitative drawing analysis of implicit constructions of athletes, girls, and the self

zanin1_reconceptualizingnestedidentities_ica_final.pdf

Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Devoney Looser

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Seed Grant Awardee: Devoney Looser

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Sport 2036

Sport 2036

Seed Grant Awardee: Kenan Song

Seed Grant Awardee: Kenan Song

A Novel 3D Printing Mechanism for Personalized Sports Medication

Last updated March 2020.

Seed Grant Awardee: Allison Ross

Seed Grant Awardee: Allison Ross

Sport, Sense of Community and School Climate

Last updated March 2020.

Seed Grant Awardee: Hyunglae Lee

Seed Grant Awardee: Hyunglae Lee

Biomechanics-Based Modeling of Multi-Dimensional Foot-Ankle Mechanics for the Development of Transformable Smart Shoes (Phase Two

Last updated March 2020.

Seed Grant Awardee: Hanqing Jiang

Seed Grant Awardee: Hanqing Jiang

Fabric-based wearable and washable electromyography (EMG) devices

Last updated March 2020.

Seed Grant Awardee: Panagiotis Polygerinos

Seed Grant Awardee: Panagiotis Polygerinos

Empowering Knee Rehabilitation and Assistance of Athletes with a Soft Robotic Exosuit

Last updated June 2019.

Seed Grant Awardee: Yezhou Yang

Seed Grant Awardee: Yezhou Yang

Non-invasive Performance Tracking with Smart Cameras

Seed Grant Awardee: Jorge Caviedes

Seed Grant Awardee: Jorge Caviedes

Wireless Sensors for Spine Posture Monitoring During Exercise to Enable Biofeedback

Last updated March 2020.

Seed Grant Awardee: Michael McBeath

Seed Grant Awardee: Michael McBeath

Why Observers Perceive the Same Event Differently: Testing the Effects of Reference Frame and Conscious Agency in Sports

Seed Grant Awardee: Alaina Zanin

Seed Grant Awardee: Alaina Zanin

Negotiating Feminine Athlete Identities Through Resistant Youth Sport Interventions (PHASE TWO)

Seed Grant Awardee: Devoney Looser

Seed Grant Awardee: Devoney Looser

Roller Derby: Past, Present, Future

Last updated March 2020.