Dancing with horses: automated quality feedback for dressage riders

Robin Thompson; Ilias Kyriazakis; Amey Holden; Patrick Olivier; Thomas Plötz

doi:10.1145/2750858.2807536

Dancing with horses: automated quality feedback for dressage riders

Robin Thompson, Ilias Kyriazakis, Amey Holden, Patrick Olivier, Thomas Plötz

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

11 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The sport of dressage has become very popular not only amongst professional athletes but increasingly also for private horse owners. In well-defined tests, rider and horse execute movements, which demonstrate the strength, endurance, and dexterity of the animal as well as the quality of the interaction between rider and horse. Whilst at a professional level intensive expert coaching to refine the skill set of horse and rider is standard, such an approach to progression is not usually viable for the large amateur population. In this paper we present a framework for automated generation of quality feedback in dressage tests. Using on-body sensing and automated measurement of key performance attributes we are able to monitor the quality of horse movements in an objective way. We validated the developed framework in a large-scale deployment study and report on the practical usefulness of automatically generated quality feedback in amateur dressage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Subtitle of host publication	September 7–11, 2015 Osaka, Japan
Editors	Tanzeem Choudhury, Hans Gellersen, Koji Yatani
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	325-336
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450335744
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807536
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2015 - Osaka, Japan Duration: 7 Sep 2015 → 11 Sep 2015 Conference number: 3rd http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2015/index.html

Conference

Conference	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2015
Abbreviated title	UbiComp 2015
Country	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	7/09/15 → 11/09/15
Internet address	http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2015/index.html

Keywords

Activity recognition
Dressage
Horses
Skill assessment
Wearable sensing

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10.1145/2750858.2807536

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Thompson, R., Kyriazakis, I., Holden, A., Olivier, P., & Plötz, T. (2015). Dancing with horses: automated quality feedback for dressage riders. In T. Choudhury, H. Gellersen, & K. Yatani (Eds.), UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: September 7–11, 2015 Osaka, Japan (pp. 325-336). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807536

Thompson, Robin ; Kyriazakis, Ilias ; Holden, Amey ; Olivier, Patrick ; Plötz, Thomas. / Dancing with horses : automated quality feedback for dressage riders. UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: September 7–11, 2015 Osaka, Japan. editor / Tanzeem Choudhury ; Hans Gellersen ; Koji Yatani. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. pp. 325-336

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Thompson, R, Kyriazakis, I, Holden, A, Olivier, P & Plötz, T 2015, Dancing with horses: automated quality feedback for dressage riders. in T Choudhury, H Gellersen & K Yatani (eds), UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: September 7–11, 2015 Osaka, Japan. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 325-336, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2015, Osaka, Japan, 7/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807536

Dancing with horses : automated quality feedback for dressage riders. / Thompson, Robin; Kyriazakis, Ilias; Holden, Amey; Olivier, Patrick; Plötz, Thomas.

UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: September 7–11, 2015 Osaka, Japan. ed. / Tanzeem Choudhury; Hans Gellersen; Koji Yatani. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. p. 325-336.

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Thompson R, Kyriazakis I, Holden A, Olivier P, Plötz T. Dancing with horses: automated quality feedback for dressage riders. In Choudhury T, Gellersen H, Yatani K, editors, UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: September 7–11, 2015 Osaka, Japan. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2015. p. 325-336 https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807536