The main focus of this university department includes:

1. Sport and Exercise Psychology
2. Sport and Exercise Physiology
3. Sport and Exercise Biomechanics
4. Sociology of Sport

E-Diary

Online sports management tool to record and manage the performance of sports teams.  The software has been developed over the last two years and is active trials with a number of sports teams, most notably the Dublin Senior Footballers.  The solution builds on the leading expertise of the Health and Human Performance research team with leading researchers from the School of Computing.  The tool is a part of a leading-edge multi-year research project researching into the use of sensors in sport. DCU's Sigerson Cup winning Gaelic Football team leveraged the E-Diary tool througout their successful 2009-1010 campaign.

DCU wins Sigerson Cup - 2 March 2010 http://www.dcu.ie/news/2010/mar/s0310d.shtml

E-Diary Overview

Personal Sensor

A software system and ongoing research project into aggregation and effective synthesis of athletic performance data.  Information comes from multiple devices e.g. heart rate monitor, gps, accelerometer, galvanic skin response and temperature.  Sensor devices are becoming more and more inexpensive and pervasive. The software leverages DCU's leading expertise in database system to effectively mine the data.  Today's systems even for professional athletes are very rudimentary so the DCU system represents a technology breakthrough for sports teams including players themselves, managers and coaches, medical staff and performance coaches and experts.

Personal Sensors Research Overview