Nov 2026· Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Sports and Human-Computer Interaction· 0 citations· 34 references
Abstract
Sports data repositories are rapidly expanding, offering new opportunities for research and education across sport science and related fields. However, there is limited understanding of how to support prospective users’ engagement with athlete data. We address this gap through a think-aloud study with eight university-affiliated researcher-educators with interest in using a collegiate athletics data repository in the United States. The findings surface these users’ discipline-specific concerns for sports repositories including minimizing risk to athletes, vendor and roster constraints shaping data usability, and the strong potential of using the data for educational purposes. This work advances SportsHCI by empirically grounding the needs of researcher-educators with the goal of supporting users from diverse academic disciplines in engaging with athlete data ecosystems.
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