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JudgED: Comparison between Kickboxing Referee Performance at a Novel Serious Game for Judging Improvement and at World Championships by Dominik Hoelbling; Andre Salmhofer; Cebrail Gencoglu; René Baranyi; Karl Pinter; Serhat Özbay; Süleyman Ulupinar; Abdullah Bora Ozkara; Thomas Grechenig is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.

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The particular responsibility of referees in combat sports lies in their decision-making to enforce the rules of the sport, which requires considerable experience and a multitude of skills, including perception, categorization, memory processing, and information integration. As a cost-effective alternative to in-tournament training, this research aims to evaluate the novel video-based serious game called “JudgED” to train martial arts referees’ decision-making processes through immediate feedback. The effectiveness of the JudgED game was assessed by (a) measuring decision accuracy and specific reaction time, (b) calculating a theoretical probability of correct scoring, and (c) comparing these results with real competition judging agreement data. A field study was conducted to analyze the performance of 16 kickboxing referees. The study involved two video-based tests in the serious game. The performance data for JudgED were obtained via a procedure that compares the players’ inputs in the serious game with expert-defined decisions. The results were compared to real-competition data gathered through qualitative analysis of kickboxing fights (n = 400 fights/1200 bouts) at the WAKO Wor

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Author

Dominik Hoelbling; Andre Salmhofer; Cebrail Gencoglu; René Baranyi; Karl Pinter; Serhat Özbay; Süleyman Ulupinar; Abdullah Bora Ozkara; Thomas Grechenig

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)