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Effect of Rater Expertise on Subjective Agility Assessment

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Advances in Human Factors in Sports, Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation (AHFE 2017)

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Agility performance is often quantified using completion time, which provides little information about which factors contribute to or limit an individual’s performance. The objective of this study was to determine how novices and experts working in athletic, clinical, and military environments qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate agility performance. Formalizing expert definitions will inform the development of objective biomechanical metrics, which have the potential to inform strategy development for training and rehabilitation. Thirty-three participants completed a survey which involved scoring 16 athletes on a 7 point Likert scale of not agile to agile. The spread of the scores indicated that even within groups, participants had different opinions about which aspects of technique contributed to high performance. Participant responses were used to link several terms to agility technique. Future work includes quantitatively defining and evaluating these terms.

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This work was supported by the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (W911QY-13-C-0011) and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. 1122374. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor. The author’s would like to thank our collaborators at the University of Michigan for providing the videos of the athletes on the obstacle course and performing the data collection, in particular Prof. Noel Perkins, Mr. Steven Davidson, Dr. Stephen Cain, Dr. Lauro Ojeda, Ms. Rachel Vitali, Mr. Jon Mendicelli, Mr. Nathan Kossey, and Mr. Cody McKay.

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    Chika Eke & Leia Stirling

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Eke, C., Stirling, L. (2018). Effect of Rater Expertise on Subjective Agility Assessment. In: Ahram, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Sports, Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 603. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60822-8_1

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