ASPIRE: New NWO-WEAVE project on subjective sports data experiences

Our 3-year project ASPIRE has been funded under the WEAVE (NWO–DFG Joint Call) ENW Open Competition M scheme! 🎉🎉

For years, our research has shown that athletes do not simply follow what their trackers tell them, they weigh the numbers against how their body feels and often trust the latter. Current sports tracking technology has little room for that: perceived exertion, motivation, enjoyment, and fatigue remain largely invisible in systems built around objective metrics.

In this project, we will integrate subjective sporting experiences with physiological and biomechanical data, developing computational models and interfaces that deliver feedback grounded in athletes' actual contexts and states.

We will post a vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Twente soon (expected start 1 December 2026).

This project is a collaboration of HMI (Dennis Reidsma, Dees Postma, and Robby van Delden), BSS (Jasper Reenalda) end IxD (Armağan Karahanoğlu) from the University of Twente with Antonio Krüger, Florian Daiber, Felix Kosmalla, Michael Feld and Daniel Sonntag from Saarland University - DFKI (Germany).