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Griffith IAP students wanted for 2012 Sports Technology Projects
Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University
IAP 2012 in Sports technology
One of the world’s emerging industries we are using mobile, web aware, RF, based small technolgies used in 90% of the worlds electronic products to make better, faster athletes and a healthier world.
For more information about the centres work and our national and international sporting partners www.qsportstechnology.com
About Us
Our team of lecturers from the School of Engineering together sports researchers and PhD’s are working with Australia’s’ leading sporting teams and institutes. You’ll probably be based at Griffith University, Nathan campus on the next big thing we are preparing for industry
About You
If you are looking to coast through IAP, these projects are not for you. These are cutting edge research and at times open end, only limited by your dedication and imagination. Whatever your skills we want you!
Past IAP’s
With over 30 IAP placements in our centre, some of our students have gone on to do PhD’s, work as sports engineering here and abroad. Along the way they have picked up international awards for their projects. Our average students aren’t and average Distinctions or higher for their IAP.
The Projects
These IAP projects are key to our future investigations and often develop into something much bigger! . Ideally we’ll start you on preparation work over the summer vacation (sometimes we can swing a vacation scholarship) so that you are ready to hit the ground running for your IAP. Below is a brief synopsis of the projects, contact for more details.
Project 1: Triathlon sensor
This project will interface our existing swimming sensors with off the shelf logging technologies. Our aim is to add swim leg monitoring to cycle and run leg for triathlon. Key skills, firmware and a little hardware.
Contact: Dr Daniel JAMES N44 -1.11
dan(AT)qsportstechnology.com
Project 2: Real time sports monitoring with ANT+
Today gym equipment and portable movement monitors and our own ZCore soon use the ANT+ protocol. This project seeks to integrate new and novel technologies together using this protocol for real time assessment of athletes. (up to 2 placements)
Contact: Dr. David ROWLANDS N44-1.14
d.rowlands(AT)griffith.edu.au
Project 3: Feature extraction of elite swimming biomechanics using wearable sensors.
This project is offered with our partner Keio University, JAPAN and will be supervised by Jim who will be based there for most of 2012. The university may financially support overseas IAP placements like this This project is our second longest running project in the centre (originally developed for the AIS). The project extends upon the work by monitoring the individual limbs and developing automated extraction algorythms for arm/leg power and co-ordination. Ideal for the DSP junkie, key skills Matlab.
Contact: Dr. Jim LEE N44 -1.12
jim(AT)qsportstechnology.com
Project 4: What else?
There is a lot going on, we may offer more projects, speak to one of us or ask around to find out more. Jump on line too!
Daniel James, Queensland Sports Technology Cluster
Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University
Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport
+61 (0)7 3735 5036 | +61 (0)7 3735 5384(f) | +61 (0)401 683 592 (m)
http://qsportstechnology.com
“..and if the traveller is fortunate….the destination is two miles father away for every mile he or she travels”, G.Leonard
Announcing the ISEA Sports Engineering conference in Lowell July, 2012

The organizers of The Engineering of Sport 9 conference are pleased to announce that this International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) biennial conference will be held in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA from July 9-13, 2012. We are soliciting papers and posters in related areas of Sports Engineering. Researchers, engineers and others interested in contributing and presenting papers at this important and exciting conference are requested to submit abstracts to the organizers by November 1, 2011.
More information and details are and will be added to the conference website – www.uml.edu/isea2012.
We have attached the announcement and Call for Papers for you to read and distribute to your colleagues.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you and we look forward to your abstract submissions this fall and then seeing you at the conference next summer.
Patrick
3 minute thesis competition finalist Andy Stamm
Andy Stamm is a finalist in the universities 3 minute thesis competition and will be speaking about his work with inertial sensors in swimming. Congratulations Andy and best of luck in the finals
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the upcoming Griffith Final of the Three Minute Thesis competition which will be held on Wednesday 7 September at 4:30pm on the South Bank campus (S05_2.04), and invite you to circulate this invitation to staff and students in your school, department, institute or centre.
Griffith’s Three Minute Thesis final is a great way to promote research degrees at Griffith, to discover the ground-breaking and inspiring research that Griffith students accomplish every day, and is an opportunity for research students to communicate and publicise their research, and have the chance to win significant prize money towards their research accounts.
You should by now have each received an invitation to attend this event and support Griffith’s competing students, and I would like to encourage you to do so. To register, please visit: http://www.griffith.edu.au/research-week/register-your-interest-content
Topics at the 2011 final will include:
- Nutrition in general practice
- Natural products as leads to cancer drugs
- Food surplus and the territory: an architectural and gastronomic analysis of town planning and urban sustainability
- Sport fan development: investigating the drivers to developing an attachment to professional sport teams
- CTME: making maths valuable, relevant and exciting
- Development and evaluation of multimedia-learning tools geared towards clinical pharmacy education
- Korean music education under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945)
- Failure to rescue the deteriorating hospitalised patient
- Process drama for foreign language teaching
- Outcomes of children with Autism in different school settings
- Monitoring swimmers performance using inertial sensors
I look forward to seeing you there!
Professor Parlo Singh
Dean, Griffith Graduate Research School

Daniel James, Queensland Sports Technology Cluster
Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University
Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport
+61 (0)7 3735 5036 | +61 (0)7 3735 5384(f) | +61 (0)401 683 592 (m)
http://qsportstechnology.com
“..and if the traveller is fortunate….the destination is two miles father away for every mile he or she travels”, G.Leonard
Sports Technology Prize in the IT Invention test
By way Mark from of Enterprise connect (http://innovation.gov.au/ ) There is a Sports Technology prize at this years IT Invention test
see http://www.itinventiontest.com.au/ for details
“We are proud to have the Australian Institute of Sport – CSIRO Partnership as a sponsor of this year’s competition. As a result, we have one industry-based stream as part of the 2011 competition – being the ‘IT-based sports technology’ stream.
For this stream the judging panel is particularly interested in submissions that;
- have relevance to athletes and their coaches going into a major event such as the London 2012 Olympics;
- will have the biggest potential impact on the athlete’s performance (even though it may not necessarily have the biggest commercial potential), and;
- may be an adaption of an existing product / service or a newly developed product / service.
The $5,000 cash prize for this stream is sponsored by the Australian Institute of Sport and CSIRO Partnership. Submissions for this stream will be eligible for all prizes.”
best,
dan
Daniel James, Queensland Sports Technology Cluster
Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University
Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport
+61 (0)7 3735 5036 | +61 (0)7 3735 5384(f) | +61 (0)401 683 592 (m)
http://qsportstechnology.com
“..and if the traveller is fortunate….the destination is two miles father away for every mile he or she travels”, G.Leonard
We know what your thinking…
The potential for recognising what the brain is thinking before a person moves has enormous applications in many fields of endeavour. One such area is that of biofeedback for the learning of new skills. Come and hear PhD candidate speak about his work in this area and moving it into the portable realm
PhD Confirmation Seminar
Yahya Qassim
Date: Friday 19th August
Time: 10am
Venue: N16_0.06 (Macrossan building)
Griffith University
Nathan Campus
Abstract:
This project involves the investigation of the relationship between EEG brain sites and cognitive processes which is important in biofeedback applications. A pilot study was initiated to determine the correlations between the CZ and FZ electrodes using a testing regime known as the oddball test. Data was collected from 12 participants, inspected and cleared as a pre-EEG analysis step. The Wavelet transform (Morlet) was used to convert the evoked potential signals to the time-frequency plane in order to highlight the signal components. Wavelet coherence was applied between two EEG recording sites to examine the similarity and synchronicity between these sites in the specified EEG bands. It was found that there were correlations in the gamma band for these sites. This work leads into creating a system for bio-feedback using an FPGA as the analysis engine.

Daniel James, Queensland Sports Technology Cluster
Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University
Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport
+61 (0)7 3735 5036 | +61 (0)7 3735 5384(f) | +61 (0)401 683 592 (m)
http://qsportstechnology.com
“..and if the traveller is fortunate….the destination is two miles father away for every mile he or she travels”, G.Leonard
2nd Annual Sports technology talks at the QAS Friday July 29th
Hi Everyone,
Announcing the 2nd Annual Sports Technology talks to be hosted at the Queensland Academy of Sport, with whom many of these projects are conducted with. For the past year our 4th year undergrads, doctoral candidates, research assistants and fellow have been working hard on developing new technologies and applying them to sport. The following programme is a snapshot of short talks on recent progress to foster discussion and gain valuable feedback. For many its a prelude to international conference presentation and research confirmation.
Hope to see you there
kind regards,
danny
PS while RSVP is not required if you could let me know numbers it would be helpful
Microsoft Word – 2011 Second annual talk Queensland Sports Technology Cluster.doc.pdf
Daniel James, Queensland Sports Technology Cluster
Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University
Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport
+61 (0)7 3735 5036 | +61 (0)7 3735 5384(f) | +61 (0)401 683 592 (m)
http://qsportstechnology.com
“..and if the traveller is fortunate….the destination is two miles father away for every mile he or she travels”, G.Leonard
