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Why You Don’t Have to Choose between Accuracy and Human Officiating (But You Might Want to Anyway)
Debates about the role of technology in sports officiating assume that technology would, ceteris paribus, improve accuracy over unassisted human officiating.
S. Seth Bordner
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Exploring player communication in interactions with sport officials [PDF]
Communication and player management are central to officiating, but player-official interaction is difficult to train and unresearched. This study interviewed team captains from different sports and used video elicitation and Goffman’s (The presentation of self in everyday life, 1959, Interaction ritual: Essays in face-to-face behaviour, 1967 ...
Ian K. Cunningham+3 more
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Home advantage in sports has been extensively researched in the academic literature over the past five decades. A review of the literature reveals several factors that consistently underly this phenomenon.
Lael Gershgoren+2 more
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A conceptual model of referee efficacy
This paper presents a conceptual model of referee efficacy, defines the concept, proposes sources of referee specific efficacy information, and suggests consequences of having high or low referee efficacy.
Félix eGuillén, Deborah L Feltz
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Numerous factors have been proposed to explain the home advantage in sport. Several authors have suggested that a partisan home crowd enhances home advantage and that this is at least in part a consequence of their influence on officiating.
Tony D Myers, Nigel J Balmer
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Referees in sport are required to have specific perceptual-cognitive skills in order to make correct and consistent decisions. The current article explores those skills and describes the literature regarding perceptual-cognitive skills and decision ...
Werner F. Helsen, Jochim Spitz, Gal Ziv
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Background Throughout the ecosystem of sport, women have been and continue to be underrepresented at all levels compared to men. The capacity of community-level sport is heavily reliant on the many non-player roles including governance, as well as ...
R Eime+4 more
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Proceedings from the Ice Hockey Summit III: Action on Concussion [PDF]
Objectives The Ice Hockey Summit III provided updated scientific evidence on concussions in hockey to inform these five objectives: (1) describe sport related concussion (SRC) epidemiology, (2) classify prevention strategies, (3) define objective ...
Aynsley M Smith+42 more
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Training and development in sport officials: A systematic review
AbstractSport officials make significant contributions to organized sport, yet scientific evidence to inform their specialized training and education at various levels has lagged. While psychological and performance demands of expert sport officials have been well documented, the extent of research about talent and expertise development, training ...
Ian Cunningham+2 more
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Applying Philosophy to Refereeing and Umpiring Technology
This paper draws an earlier book (with Evans and Higgins) entitled Bad Call: Technology’s Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It (hereafter Bad Call) and its various precursor papers.
Harry Collins
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