Time (Rome) Room #01 Room #02

Monday, July 8
09:15-09:30 Opening Ceremony
09:30-10:00 Keynote Session
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Session 1 - Sport Performances - Part I
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Session 2 - Sports, Disability and Rehabilitation
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:50 Session 3 - Materials for Sports
18:00-19:00 Welcome Party
Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Lecco

Tuesday, July 9
09:00-09:30 Keynote Session
09:30-10:30 Session 4.1 - General Track - Part I Session 4.2 - General Track - Part II
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 5.1 - General Track - Part III Session 5.2 - General Track - Part IV
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Session 6 - Computational Analyses in Sports
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:50 Session 7
19:30-23:00 Gala Dinner
Frigerio Restaurant - Lecco

Wednesday, July 10
09:00-10:00 Session 8 - Active Life Styles
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Session 9 - Sport Performances - Part II
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-18:00 Social Event

Monday, July 8

Monday, July 8 9:15 - 9:30

Opening Ceremony

Monday, July 8 9:30 - 10:00

Keynote Session

Monday, July 8 10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

Monday, July 8 10:30 - 12:30

Session 1 - Sport Performances - Part I

10:30 A Novel Low-Cost Timing System for Alpine Ski Races Based on Low Power Microcontrollers and Peer-To-Peer Wireless Data Transfer
Davide Mazzocca (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Alessandro Borghese (Università di Napoli, Italy); Vincenzo Romano Marrazzo, Luca Maresca, Michele Riccio, Giovanni Breglio and Andrea Irace (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
10:50 Technologies for Non-Invasive and Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring in Sports: A Patent Landscape Analysis
Pietro Massone, Massimo Barbieri, Alessandra Angelucci and Andrea Aliverti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
11:10 Diaphragmatic, Thoracic and Abdominal Breathing for Sport: The Effect on Vagal Activity, a Case Report
Angelica Carandina and Eleonora Tobaldini (Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy); Riccardo Asnaghi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Ilaria Righi (Foundation IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy); Gabriel Dias (University of Milan, Italy); Nicola Montano (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Andrea Aliverti and Antonella LoMauro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
11:30 Evaluation of Locomotor-Respiratory Coupling (LRC) Using the Motion Analysis System
Antonella LoMauro, Christian Pozzi and Andrea Aliverti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
11:50 A Sensorized Insole to Estimate Ground Reaction Forces and Center of Pressure During Gait
Virginia Civeriati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Benito L Pugliese (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Carlo Carraro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Giulia Corniani (Harvard Medical School at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, USA); Federico Bauducco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Alessandra Angelucci and Andrea Aliverti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Paolo Bonato (Harvard Medical School, USA)
12:10 Blockchain Integration in FIFA Clearing House: Enhancing Security and Operational Efficiency
Davide Calderone (University of Bologna, Italy); Giorgia Costa (University of Camerino & University of Turin, Italy)

Monday, July 8 12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

Monday, July 8 14:00 - 16:00

Session 2 - Sports, Disability and Rehabilitation

14:00 Muscular Activity in a Paralympic Swimmer: A Case Study
Filippo Motta, Lucia Donno, Flavia Marrone and Antonella LoMauro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Veronica Cimolin (Politecnico di Milano & IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy); Manuela Galli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
14:20 Enhancing Inclusive Sport Participation for Students With Special Needs Through VR and Rowing Simulator
Mario Covarrubias, Prabhjot Singh, Flavia Marrone, Filippo Bertozzi, Marco Tarabini and Manuela Galli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
14:40 A Motorized Trike for Prolonged Cycling Training Assisted by Functional Electrical Stimulation
Davide Savona, Camilla Zanco, Nicole Sanna, Laura Brignole, Alessandra Pedrocchi and Emilia Ambrosini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
15:00 Toward the Implementation of High Intensity Interval Training During FES-Cycling: An Exploratory Study
Nicole Sanna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Roberta Nossa and Emilia Biffi (Scientific Institute IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Italy); Alessandra Pedrocchi, Marco Tarabini and Emilia Ambrosini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
15:20 Technical Assessment in Paralympic Water Polo: A Measurement Protocol to Support the Classification of Athletes With Disabilities
Cristiana Frontuto (Sports Engineering Lab, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Francesca Campoli (Sport Engineering Lab - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Lucio Caprioli and Saeid Edriss (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Antonella Galvan and Mario Giuliano (FINP, Italy); Cristian Romagnoli (San Raffaele Rome University, Italy); Giuseppe Annino and Vincenzo Bonaiuto (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy)
15:40 Whole-Body Vibration Exposure During Snowboard With Lower Limb Amputations
Delphine Chadefaux (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France); Jules Olivié and Xavier Bonnet (Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France)

Monday, July 8 16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

Monday, July 8 16:30 - 17:50

Session 3 - Materials for Sports

16:30 On a Nondestructive Viscoelastic Characterization of Sport Surfaces Through a Model-Based Approach
Ciro Tordela and Andrea Genovese (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
16:50 Biomechanical and Metabolic Effects of Using Spring Shoes During Locomotion
Filippo Bertozzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Christian Nino (ELMAS Sport Division, Italy); Giovanni Moschioni, Manuela Galli and Marco Tarabini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
17:10 Laboratory Evaluation of Water Bottle Cages Equivalent Stiffness
Carlotta Massotti and Davide Galletta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Benjamin Lehner and Federico Stella (SCOTT SPORTS SA, Italy); Marco Tarabini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
17:30 Materials for Sport and Rehabilitation: Mechanical Performance and Sustainability
Riccardo Gerosa, Barbara Rivolta, Davide Panzeri and Mirko Tenca (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Monday, July 8 18:00 - 19:00

Welcome Party
Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Lecco

Tuesday, July 9

Tuesday, July 9 9:00 - 9:30

Keynote Session

Tuesday, July 9 9:30 - 10:30

Session 4.1 - General Track - Part I

Room #01
9:30 Data Acquisition and Analysis of ILCA 6 Dinghies Sailing Upwind
Paolo Belluco and Marta Zattoni (LWT3 Srl, Italy)
9:50 Heart Rate Variability Metrics During Exercise: A Comparison Between Standard ECG and a Smart t-Shirt
Marta Carrara, Stefania Coelli and Pierluigi Reali (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
10:10 Distribution of Contact Forces of a Climber in Typical Rest Positions
Eleonora Bonelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Susanna Rampichini and Eloisa Limonta (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Alessandro Colombo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Tuesday, July 9 9:30 - 10:30

Session 4.2 - General Track - Part II

Room #02
9:30 NECSTCamp: A Novel Approach to Education and Physical Well-Being
Susanna Bardini, Laura Ginestretti and Jacopo Lazzari (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco D Santambrogio (Politecnico di Milano & MIT, Italy)
9:50 Towards a Greater Awareness of the Relevance of Sleep and Physical Activity for Personal Well-Being
Susanna Bardini, Jacopo Lazzari and Laura Ginestretti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco D Santambrogio (Politecnico di Milano & MIT, Italy)
10:10 Differences in Weight-Acceptance Phase During Landing in Block Jumps: A Pilot Study on Female Volleyball Players
Emilia Scalona, Martina Mosso and Gianluca Rossetto (University of Brescia, Italy); Giuseppe Andreoni and Nicola Francesco Lopomo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Tuesday, July 9 10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

Tuesday, July 9 11:00 - 13:00

Session 5.1 - General Track - Part III

Room #01
11:00 Ski Pose Estimation
Giulia Martinelli, Federico Diprima, Niccolò Bisagno and Nicola Conci (University of Trento, Italy)
11:20 Comparative Evaluation of GPS Data Smoothing Techniques for Error Minimization in Sport Performance Metrics
Susanna Stillavato (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Gabriele Santicchi (University of Milan, Italy); Davide Ballada, Federico Frellicca and Aldo Comi (Soccerment Srl, Italy); Fabio Esposito and Matteo Zago (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
11:40 OSL-ActionSpotting: A Unified Library for Action Spotting in Sports Videos
Yassine Benzakour (Montefiore Institute, University of Liège, Belgium); Bruno Cabado (Cinfo, University of A Coruna, Spain); Silvio Giancola (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Anthony Cioppa (University of Liège & King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Belgium); Bernard Ghanem (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Marc Van Droogenbroeck (University of Liège, Belgium)
12:00 Investigating Event-Based Cameras for Video Frame Interpolation in Sports
Antoine Dekyvere (University of Liège, Belgium); Anthony Cioppa (University of Liège & King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Belgium); Silvio Giancola (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Bernard Ghanem (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Marc Van Droogenbroeck (University of Liège, Belgium)
12:20 WTDTool: Women's Talent Detection Tool
Juan López-De-Armentia (Tecnalia, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Spain)
12:40 Assessment Method of Indoor Localization System for High-Performance Sports Analysis
Laurie Conteville (Efrei Paris, France); Elizabeth Colin (EFREI Paris, France)

Tuesday, July 9 11:00 - 13:00

Session 5.2 - General Track - Part IV

Room #02
11:00 MealMate: Towards a Meal, Exercise and Sleep Tracking App to Enhance Physical Performances
Susanna Bardini, Laura Ginestretti, Clara Maria Gabana, Alessio Pesavento and Edoardo Sorgentone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco D Santambrogio (Politecnico di Milano & MIT, Italy)
11:20 Hexalab: A Novel Facility for Sport Simulations Based on Human-In-The-Loop Concept
Carol Sergenti, Hermes Giberti, Giuseppe Mangano and Josè Farias Fuentes (Università di Pavia, Italy); Marco Tarabini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
11:40 Monitoring Performance in Women's Soccer Players During Training Through Wearable Sensors: Design Issues and Reliability Assessement
Giuseppe Andreoni, Nicola Francesco Lopomo and Paolo Perego (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
12:00 Measuring Calcaneus Eversion Angle During Running at Different Speeds and Inclinations: A 3D Kinematics Approach
Nina Verdel (University of Ljubljana & Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Neža Nograšek (University Medical Centre Ljubljana & University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Irinej Papuga, Miha Drobnič, Vojko Strojnik and Matej Supej (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
12:20 A Wireless Intra-Oral Device for Respiratory and Cardiovascular Monitoring in Sport
Andrea Scarpellini (University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) & Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), USA); Andrea Aliverti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Hananeh Esmailbeigi (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
12:40 Monitoring Fatigue Through Ground Reaction Forces Among Professional Football Players Using an Instrumented Pair of Football Shoes: A Two-Phase Study
Alexandre Karamanoukian, Jean-Philippe Boucher and Romain Labbé (Phyling, France); Nicolas Vignais (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rennes, France)

Tuesday, July 9 13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

Tuesday, July 9 14:00 - 16:00

Session 6 - Computational Analyses in Sports

14:00 Learning to Detect Soccer Pass at the Edge: A Comparison Between Edge and Cloud-Based Streaming Machine Learning Approaches
Alessio Bernardo (Politecnico di Milano & Motus ML, Italy); Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
14:20 Analyzing the Performance of Deep Learning-Based Techniques for Human Pose Estimation
Federico Boscolo, Fabrizio Lamberti and Lia Morra (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
14:40 Predicting Affective States Using Wearable Technology: A Machine Learning Approach
Gergely Imre Biri (FZI - Research Center for Information Technology, Germany); Dennis Birkenmaier (FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany); Marc Schroth, Tao Hu and Maximilian Hoffmann (FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany); Marco Giurgiu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technolog, Germany); Simon Woll (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Wilhelm Stork (FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany)
15:00 Using Deep Neural Networks to Detect Non-Analytically Defined Expert Event Labels in Canoe Sprint Force Sensor Signals
Sarah Rockstroh, Patrick Frenzel and Daniel Matthes (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Kay Schubert and David Wollburg (Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment (FES), Germany); Mirco Fuchs (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
15:20 On Empirical Adequacy of an Ascent-Time Model
Len Bos (University of Verona, Italy); Michael A. Slawinski (Memorial University, Italy); Raphael A. Slawinski (Mount Royal University, Italy); Theodore Stanoev (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
15:40 Leveraging Machine Learning to Predict National Basketball Association Player Injuries
Omar Farghaly and Priya Deshpande (Marquette University, USA)

Tuesday, July 9 16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

Tuesday, July 9 16:30 - 17:50

Session 7

16:30 A Machine Vision Toolkit for Analyzing Tennis Racquet Positioning During Service
Dhruv Jhamb (The World School, USA); Ross Greer (University of California, Merced, USA)
16:50 3D Markerless Velocity Based Weight Training System for Athletes: Detection, Estimation and Validation
Vignesh Rajakumar, Pragathi R, Saravanan Manoharan and Anish Monsley Kirupakaran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Ravi Hegde (IIT Gandhinagar, India); Babji Srinivasan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
17:10 Track and Field Starting Blocks Performance: Assessment of an Alternative Measurement System for Evaluating Upper Limbs Contribution
Chiara Martina and Diego Scaccabarozzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
17:30 A Preliminary Investigation to Advance Personalized Nutrition Strategies for Athletes
Alessandra Vincenti, Hellas Cena, Pietro Mariano Casali, Carol Sergenti and Hermes Giberti (Università di Pavia, Italy)

Tuesday, July 9 19:30 - 23:00

Gala Dinner
Frigerio Restaurant - Lecco

Wednesday, July 10

Wednesday, July 10 9:00 - 10:00

Session 8 - Active Life Styles

9:00 BACCO: A Tool for Holistic Wellness Monitoring
Laura Ginestretti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco D Santambrogio (Politecnico di Milano & MIT, Italy); Angelo Guarnerio, Alessandra Isella and Luca Fiorin (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
9:20 Evaluation of a New Wearable Device for Indoor and Outdoor Environmental Monitoring
Sara Bernasconi, Alessandra Angelucci and Andrea Aliverti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
9:40 Using A Sports Technology Maturity Model for Evaluating Smart Cities
Paolo Bouquet, Andrea Molinari and Sabrina Vettorato (University of Trento, Italy)

Wednesday, July 10 10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

Wednesday, July 10 10:30 - 12:30

Session 9 - Sport Performances - Part II

10:30 Biomechanics of Noncontact and Indirect Contact Injuries in Èlite Male Football (Soccer) Players
Alice Ranzini and Monica Nitri (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Marco Loddo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Alessandro Pellegrini (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Laura Orione (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Asia Motalli (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Fabio Esposito (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Francesco Della Villa (Isokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Italy); Matteo Zago (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
10:50 Agreement of Total Distance and Speed Metrics Across Multiple Football Tracking Devices
Gabriele Santicchi (University of Milan, Italy); Susanna Stillavato (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Pietro Cerveri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Fabio Esposito (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Aldo Comi, Federico Frellicca and Marco Deriu (Soccerment Srl, Italy); Matteo Zago (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
11:10 The Trade-Off Between Jump Performance and ACL Injury Risk During Landings
Claudia Brunetti and Riccardo Solazzo (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Filippo Bertozzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Chiarella Sforza (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
11:30 Impact of IMU Placement on Vertical Jump Height Estimation: A Comparative Analysis in Countermovement Jumps
Giacomo Villa (Politecnico di Milano & Euleria Health, Italy); Veronica Cimolin (Politecnico di Milano & IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy); Manuela Galli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Serena Cerfoglio (Politecnico di Milano & IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy)
11:50 Assessment of Tennis Timing Using an Acoustic Detection System
Lucio Caprioli (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Francesca Campoli (Sport Engineering Lab - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Saeid Edriss (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Cristiana Frontuto and Amani Najlaoui (Sports Engineering Lab, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Elvira Padua (San Raffaele Rome Open University, Italy); Cristian Romagnoli (San Raffaele Rome University, Italy); Giuseppe Annino and Vincenzo Bonaiuto (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy)
12:10 AI-Driven Paddle Motion Detection
Amani Najlaoui (Sports Engineering Lab, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Francesca Campoli (Sport Engineering Lab - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Lucio Caprioli and Saeid Edriss (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Cristiana Frontuto (Sports Engineering Lab, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Cristian Romagnoli (San Raffaele Rome University, Italy); Giuseppe Annino and Vincenzo Bonaiuto (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy); Andrea Zanela (ENEA, Italy)

Wednesday, July 10 12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

Wednesday, July 10 13:30 - 18:00

Social Event