The program

President of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Patron of the #SGD Congress

State Secretary / Head of Office at the Ministry of the Interior and Sport

Chairman of the Management Board, Techniker Krankenkasse

ZE College sports, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

"Futuring Sport and Health": Sport and exercise behavior in digitalized living environments

Digitalization as a social phenomenon is leading to a drastic change in sports and exercise behaviour, which is not only expressed in an increased demand for technological support services for training optimization and health claims, but also in a drastically changed attitude towards sports and health organizations. The presentation takes a look at the key transformations of digitalization in conjunction with other social trends and shows the hidden dynamics of change for sports and health organizations.

Center for Environment, Health and Field Research, Chiba University, Japan

森林浴とホームオフィス
Shinrin-yoku and home office

For millions of years, humans have evolved within a natural environment. Today, we live accordingly with a body adapted to nature. Therefore, urban and "artificial" environments cause stress for the human organism. The home office situation, which is particularly prevalent right now under COVID-19, further exacerbates this stressed state.

In this lecture, the relaxing effect of nature, for example in the form of forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku), will be presented using physiological indicators such as brain activity and activity of the autonomic nervous system. In addition, the preventive medical effect of natural influences will be demonstrated and, finally, ways will be suggested as to how these can be incorporated into everyday urban life by means of Shinrin-yoku.

You can find the lecture with German dubbing here as well as the original Japanese version of the video below.

Techniker Krankenkasse

Health insurance companies in the digital transformation - TK's portfolio of digital health applications

Since 01.01.2020, the legislator has introduced a new benefit in statutory health insurance. Following a doctor's prescription, health insurance companies will cover the costs of a digital health application (DiGA). The presentation presents the current digital portfolio as well as an experience report for the implementation of the DiGA.

Serious Games Engineering & CampusPlus, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

Promoting physical activity in the university environment with the help of gamification and serious games

The Game of RPTU, designed and developed at RPTU, aims to promote physical activity among students at the university. Since 2018, users have been playing for "supremacy at the university" in a combination of virtual and real games via an app. This presentation will show what Games for Health can look like at universities with different target groups, as well as the research results.

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Personal health management with intelligent apps

Authors: Janina Sauer1^,2, Alexander Münzberg1^,2, Andreas ^Hein2, Norbert ^Rösch1

^{1University of}Kaiserslautern, Germany, ^2Carlvon Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

Evaluation of data quality in remotem testing of medical apps

Software needs a user-friendly interface. There are various ways to evaluate whether this is the case. Most of these relate to the usability of desktop applications. The testing of mobile applications (apps) remains largely unnoticed in this respect. In most cases, the usability of applications is tested in the usability laboratory.

The usability lab has some disadvantages. For example, the test environment is very present, as the test person operates the app while he/she is in a strange room and is observed by the test manager. Furthermore, his/her complete behavior is recorded. Only the predefined tasks are performed by the test subject and the collection of suitable test subjects is time-consuming [1].

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Sports analytics

The field of computer-aided collection, analysis and marketing of sports data (sports analytics) has been experiencing strong growth for several years (Research And Markets, 2016). Nowadays, none of Europe's top soccer clubs can do without the collection and analysis of training and competition data. Major sports associations such as the German Volleyball Association, the German Table Tennis Association, the German Taekwondo Union and the German Athletics Association are also working with representatives of the scientific community to give their teams a performance advantage over their opponents through computer-aided collection and analysis of position and event data. The presentation will shed light on the two areas of collecting and analyzing sports data. It will show examples of which data is already collected during training and competition, how the validity of this data can be tested and how this data is analyzed in different sports.

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Doping detection using simulative stress-performance analysis

A central subject of research in sports science and sports practice is the relationship between stress and performance - not only in terms of training effort and performance, but also in terms of physiological stress and resulting performance in competition.
Numerous models have been developed to measure and/or optimize these relationships. Most of these approaches are based on so-called closed systems, in which the dynamics are described by deterministic functions and the input data are given by a given data stream.

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Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Sport in virtual reality

The use of virtual reality (VR) is constantly increasing in various forms of therapy and rehabilitation as well as in recreational and competitive sports. However, the standardized conditions, the manipulations that are not possible in reality, the depth information and the interaction with humans also allow it to be used for sports science research. Of particular interest is the inclusion of avatars, which makes it possible to study the motor reaction behavior of the athlete. The presentation will provide an overview of the following research focuses: Training of reaction behavior in VR, use of VR for movement learning, comparison of gaze behavior and orientation ability between VR and reality.

Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Digitalization in club sport: opportunities and risks for organized sport

In sports management, commercialization, professionalization and digitalization are considered three megatrends that have a significant impact on our social and technological development. In contrast to short-term product or fashion trends, megatrends are characterized by a half-life of around 25-30 years, i.e. they not only shape the present, but also the next generation (see Fontius, 2013). Digitalization in particular is contributing to the fact that sport and our sporting activities will change in terms of organization, content and technology (VSD, 2017).

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Sports Science, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

Technological innovations and digitally supported training control in training science and healthcare

The rapid development and constant spread of miniaturized sensor technology and its applications (e.g. apps, inertial sensors, smartphones, etc.) is influencing (almost) all dimensions of our societal and social environments and increasingly also those of sport and healthcare (Thompson, 2019). As computers and interfaces are not only becoming more powerful in the calculation and processing of increasing amounts of data, but are also becoming smaller and smaller (Waldrop, 2016), they therefore represent an essential basis for self-learning automation processes. In the context of sport and healthcare, the fields of application are explicitly training monitoring, competition, regeneration management and (performance) or medical diagnostics (Düking et al., 2020).

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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Fitness sensor technology - recommendation systems for running routes, running shoes, big data analysis and AI methods

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

BIONIC - Intelligent sensor networks reduce physical strain in the workplace

Authors: David Schönfisch, Michael Göddel, Jörg Blinn, Antoni Picard

University of Kaiserslautern

Microtechnical sensor for moisture measurement close to the body

A new type of thermal moisture sensor for determining material moisture and initial applications are presented. The sensor is practically insensitive to typical disturbance variables such as electromagnetic fields or varying salinity due to the thermal measuring method. The measuring range of the sensor can be limited to very thin layers without further effort by means of suitable signal evaluation. This makes the sensor particularly suitable for measuring the water content of textile layers and skin close to the body. The system can be constructed very compactly and the energy consumption is low, so that portable applications - wearables - can be realized.

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Authors: Jörg Blinn, Michael Göddel, Antoni Picard

University of Kaiserslautern

Authors: Katja Klemm & Klaus Bös

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Authors: Claudia Hildebrand, Lena Panter, Marisa Thomann, Melanie Volkamer, Jonathan Diener, Christopher Beckmann, Alexander Woll

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

[...] - Consideration of plausibility and application context in the API-based provision of food information

Authors: Alexander Münzberg1^,2, Janina Sauer1^,2, Andreas ^Hein2, Norbert ^Rösch1

^{1University of}Kaiserslautern, ^2Carlvon Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

Author: Eva Bartaguiz

University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

[...] Intervention results in the context of a randomized and controlled m-Health study

Authors: Janis Fiedler, Tobias Eckert, Kathrin Wunsch, Alexander Woll

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Authors: Bastian ^{Schittkowski1}, Ingo ^Wagner2

^{1Peter-Bruckmann-Schule}Heilbronn, ^2KarlsruherInstitute of Technology

SportZens WOW - Increasing physical activity time in PE lessons through app-supported homework

Homework in physical education and its effectiveness are reflected from different perspectives across all types of schools (see Hill, 2018; Novak & Lynott, 2015; Castell & Ward, 2012; Deutsch, 2003; Smith, Cluph & O'Connor, 2001). Homework can be used as a targeted tool in PE lessons to promote pupils' health. Firstly, it makes it possible to increase physical activity time in PE lessons, secondly, to instruct physical activity time at home and thirdly, to consolidate a deeper motivation for physical activity through cognitive reflection (Achtergarde, 2015; Wagner, 2016). Observations during the lockdown at a grammar school in Basel have shown that homework in PE lessons, if it is set in a motivating way with an appealing goal for the pupils, can lead to an increase in daily exercise time, even if PE lessons are canceled due to the system.

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Authors: Pierre Meinokat, Ingo Wagner

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Causes, prevention and intervention of teaching disorders in digital learning - a systematic review

Unfortunately, the term burnout is no longer a foreign concept among teachers: "Teachers [...] find the frequent disruptions that take up a lot of teaching time and wear them down in the long term particularly stressful" (Lohmann, 2018, p. 9). At the same time, a study by Maddeh, Bennour and Souissi (2015) on 28 schools in the USA, for example, shows that an average of 1.2 disruptions per minute (!) occur in PE lessons.

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Authors: Moritz Mödinger, Alexander Woll, Ingo Wagner

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

All new?! Feedback in physical education under the influence of digitalization

Physical activity has great potential to contribute to a healthy lifestyle (Hallal, Victora, Azevedo & Wells, 2006). Extracurricular sports in clubs, for example, have a positive effect on the achievement of recommended physical activity goals (Kokko, Martin, Geidne, Van Hoye, Lane, Meganck, Scheerder, Seghers, Villberg, Kudlacek, Badura, Mononen, Blomqvist, De Clercq & Koski, 2019), but school sports also play an important role in influencing physical activity behavior (Schmidt, Will & Woll, 2016).

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Authors: Jessica Helten, Susanne Tittlbach

University of Bayreuth

Movement and sitting behavior of students before and during COVID-19

Little movement and a lot of sitting are among the most common causes of lifestyle diseases. Sitting times are particularly high among people with a high level of education, and initial studies in the university setting now indicate that a lack of exercise and sedentary behavior in particular are also widespread among students (Brandl-Bredenbeck et al., 2013; Göring & Möllenbeck, 2015). This is the starting point of the current study, which examines the movement and sitting behavior of students in the university setting in general, but also specifically in the current home-learning situation caused by COVID-19, in order to develop movement-promoting measures in a participatory manner (Helten et al.. 2020).

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Digital health literacy of students in Germany during the corona pandemic

COVID-19 symptoms in the education system - The DiKoLAN orientation framework as a basis for sustainable countermeasures

Against the backdrop of the coronavirus situation, the digitalization of teaching appears more urgent than ever. However, it is still unclear in many areas what should be taught to prospective teachers and how. For the natural science subjects of biology, chemistry and physics, a working group of 9 subject didactics experts at 8 universities, on the initiative of two employees at RPTU, began creating an expandable orientation framework "Digital competencies for the teaching profession in the natural sciences (DiKoLAN)" even before the pandemic, which describes the digital competencies that prospective teachers should have. The aim of the initiative is to offer approaches for teacher training that is coordinated across different subjects and training phases in order to be equipped for digitalization processes in the future.

Chief Physician and Medical Director of the Westpfalz-Klinikum

Robots in the operating theater - possibilities, limits and opportunities of digital medicine

Managing Director DFKI Kaiserslautern & Head of the Smart Data & Knowledge Services research department

New opportunities for co-creative medicine through artificial intelligence

Professor of General Education with a focus on School Pedagogy at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Higher - faster - further? On the risks and side effects of digitalization (in) education
Even before the coronavirus crisis, the discourse on digitalization has shaped education - and rarely have technological euphoria and cultural pessimism been so closely intertwined. After all, it wasn't only during the pandemic that we saw the benefits and opportunities that digital media offer (not only) in educational institutions. However, in addition to all the advantages, the article also wants to take a look at the critical side in order to examine the intended and unintended side effects of digitalization in education together with the audience.

Chief Physician of the Clinic for Psychosomatics at the Westpfalz-Klinikum

The impact of the digital world on physical and mental health

Chief Physician of Internal Medicine 2 at the Westpfalz-Klinikum

Digital trends and opportunities using the example of cardiac medicine

The presentation will outline digital developments from which patients with heart disease are already benefiting or will benefit in the near future. Examples of digital trends in cardiac medicine include smart watches, implantable bio-monitors, automated AI-based diagnostics and remote therapy with smart glasses.

Authors: Norbert ^Rösch1, Janina Sauer1^,3, Maximilian ^Mock1, Henning ^Haab2, Alexander Münzberg1^,3

^{1University of Applied Sciences}Kaiserslautern-Campus Zweibrücken, ^2Institutefor Social Research and Social Economy e.V., Saarbrücken, ^3Carlvon Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Digital decision support to promote adherence in healthcare: How nutritional advice and germ management can benefit from digitalization

Digital decision support can individually promote health-relevant behavior if evidence-based factual knowledge is provided in the decision-making process. Preventive medicine approaches use appropriate patient education methods to promote long-term behavioral change in at-risk populations [1]. However, opportunities to increase adherence should not be limited to patients. The Hospital Report 2014 reports that preventable adverse events occur in approximately 2-4% of German hospital cases, of which around 20,000 cases are fatal [2]. Advocates of evidence-based medicine are therefore discussing how medical decisions can be validated with the help of digitally available guidelines [3]. Possible approaches are presented and compared using two examples.

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Authors: Manuela Gries, Anne Christmann, Marko Baller, Matthias Laschke, Michael Menger, Karl-Herbert Schäfer

Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, Zweibrücken Campus, Homburg Medical Faculty, Saarland University

Movement analysis of gait and bowel - early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases via motility analysis of the bowel

Motor changes are one of the cardinal symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease. Gait, fine motor skills and facial expressions are significantly impaired. However, this is only the case when a large proportion of the affected nerve cells in the basal ganglia of the brain have already died. This also means that it is too late for a causal therapy. Interestingly, many Parkinson's patients show gastrointestinal symptoms long before their motor skills are impaired or the disease can be diagnosed with certainty. It is therefore likely that the gastrointestinal tract is affected in these patients long before other symptoms appear. In fact, so-called Lewi bodies, aggregates of the pathological peptide synuclein1, have been found in nerve cells of the intestine in intestinal biopsies of Parkinson's patients. In principle, the microbiome and markers for the quality of the mucosal barrier are altered in Parkinson's patients2,3.

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Authors: Alexandra Ziegeldorf, Petra Wagner, Hagen Wulff

Institute for Health Sports and Public Health, University of Leipzig

Digitally supported obesity therapy in adults: Opportunities and risks for physical activity

Against the background of the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide (WHO 2017), there is an increased risk of concomitant and secondary diseases at patient level on the one hand and high direct and indirect costs at global healthcare system level on the other (John, Wolfenstetter & Wenig 2012). One of the causes of this problem is physical inactivity, which is further encouraged by increased media consumption (Banzer 2017). In contrast, there is a trend towards increasingly incorporating digital media into therapeutic concepts in a supportive manner (Raaijmakers et al. 2015). Against the background of the optimization of outpatient and inpatient obesity therapy, the question arises as to the effectiveness of digitally supported therapy approaches on the physical activity of adults.

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