Understanding how professional handball goalkeepers acquire skills to combine decision-making and complex motor tasks is a multidisciplinary challenge. In order to improve a goalkeeper's training by allowing insights into their complex perception, learning and action processes, virtual reality (VR) technologies provide a way to standardize experimental sport situations. In this poster we describe a VR-based handball system, which supports the evaluation of perceptual-motor skills of handball goalkeepers during shots. In order to allow reliable analyses it is essential that goalkeepers can move naturally like they would do in a real game situation, which is often inhibited by wires or markers that are usually used in VR systems. To address this challenge, we developed a camera-based goalkeeper analysis system, which allows to detect and measure motions of goalkeepers in real-time.

@inproceedings{BZBSHFS10,
  author = {Bolte, Benjamin and Zeidler, Florian and Bruder, Gerd and Steinicke, Frank and Hinrichs, Klaus H. and Fischer, Lennart and Schorer, J{\"o}rg},
  title = {A Virtual Reality Handball Goalkeeper Analysis System},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EuroVR - EGVE - VEC},
  pages = {1--2},
  year = {2010},
  keywords = {vr, locui},
  url = {http://viscg.uni-muenster.de/publications/2010/BZBSHFS10},
}