A Training Tool for Athletes

A high-tech armband is helping athletes find their rhythm on the basketball court by playing a special tune when the athletes move their arms correctly.

CSIRO is developing wearable body mapping garments that the Australian Institute of Sport is assessing for improving sports performance. In a current project with the Australian netball team, an interactive garment is being used to train goalshooters in automatic rhythms to enable their natural action to remain undisturbed by their conscious thoughts in stressful situations.

In 2006, CSIRO built a virtual air guitar, known as the Wearable Instrument Shirt (WIS) that lets users play air guitar simply by moving one arm to pick chords and the other to strum the imaginary instrument’s strings.

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