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ASPIRE: New NWO-WEAVE project on subjective sports data experiencesOur 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).
Sat 13 Jun 2026
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ZonMw Sportinnovator award for WearM.AIOn 21 May 2025, the ZonMw Sportinnovator network held its yearly meetup, this time in Wageningen. Part of the meetup included a "Play-offs" session during which 15 Sports Innovator Center initiatives pitched to a jury about their plans of the innovative development in sport and movement. Dr. Huawei Wang presented his plans for WearM.AI, as representative of the Sports Tech Center Twente ecosystem, and was selected as one of the five winners. He will be using the prize (20.000 EUR) to conduct a small pilot study with their wearable sports digital twin solution on a semi-professional runner.
Mon 26 May 2025
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