The impact of mobile phone use on where we look and how we walk when negotiating floor based obstacles.

Autor: Matthew A Timmis, Herre Bijl, Kieran Turner, Itay Basevitch, Matthew J D Taylor, Kjell N van Paridon

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 6, p e0179802 (2017)

Pedestrians regularly engage with their mobile phone whilst walking. The current study investigated how mobile phone use affects where people look (visual search behaviour) and how they negotiate a floor based hazard placed along the walking path. Wh

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Visual search strategies of soccer players executing a power vs. placement penalty kick.

Autor: Matthew A Timmis, Kieran Turner, Kjell N van Paridon

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 12, p e115179 (2014)

When taking a soccer penalty kick, there are two distinct kicking techniques that can be adopted; a 'power' penalty or a 'placement' penalty. The current study investigated how the type of penalty kick being taken affected the kicker's visual search

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Student transition into higher education: Time for a rethink within the subject of sport and exercise science?

Autor: Matthew A. Timmis, Sharon Pexton, Francesca Cavallerio

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Education, Vol 7 (2022)

The first year of higher education (HE) marks one of the most significant transitions in a student’s life. Within the U.K., the subject area of Sport and Exercise Science (SES) has a problem with effectively supporting and retaining students as the

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Visual Strategies Underpinning the Spatiotemporal Demands During Visuomotor Tasks in Predicting Ball Direction

Autor: Alessandro Piras, Matthew A. Timmis, Milena Raffi, Aurelio Trofè

Publikováno v: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology. 43:514-523

We investigated gaze behavior of expert goalkeepers during the prediction of penalty kicks in different spatiotemporal constraints: penalties taken from 11 and 6 m. From 11 m, goalkeepers were more successful in predicting ball direction, with longer

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https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2020-0345

Cricketers are not tickled pink by the new coloured ball

Autor: Derek H. Arnold, Luke Wilkins, Eldré W. Beukes, James Johnstone, Peter M. Allen, Matthew A. Timmis, Joshua M. Adie, Alice Homer, Robert Maguire, David L. Mann

Publikováno v: Maguire, R, Timmis, M A, Wilkins, L, Mann, D L, Beukes, E, Homer, A, Johnstone, J A, Adie, J M, Arnold, D & Allen, P M 2021, ' Cricketers are not tickled pink by the new coloured ball ', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 183-188 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2020.08.006
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 24(2), 183-188. Elsevier BV

Objectives:\ud Cricket administrators have started scheduling long-form matches which finish at night and are played with a pink as opposed to a red ball. However, there are reports that the pink ball may introduce new dangers and alter performance.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2020.08.006