Aim
Three poster presentations will be awarded at the 2nd Biomechanics in Sport and Ageing Symposium — Artificial intelligence. The aim of the award is to acknowledge outstanding scientific contributions of under/graduate/postgraduate students in the field of artificial intelligence in sports and ageing.
How to apply?
All accepted abstracts will be considered for the award. The award panel will shortlist presentations based on the scientific merit of the abstracts.
Prize (shared prize is possible)
- 1st place: 300 €
- 2nd place: 200 €
- 3rd place: 100 €
Application criteria
Undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate students can apply. Applicant student must be the registered first author of the submitted abstract and will need to present the poster in person at the poster session of the symposium. Each pitch lasts for 3 minutes while standing by the poster followed by an answer-question period of 2 minutes. Poster presentations to be awarded are of high quality in terms of scientific merit, presentation skills, and the ability to answer questions.
Abstract format
Title, authors, affiliations, first author’s email address, 350 words of text structured as follows: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Acknowledgements. The header and funding acknowledgements are excluded from the 350 words.
Poster format
Participants are encouraged to use minimal amount of text and use instead graphics, illustration as the main vehicle to present information. Title banner followed by Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions organized in a columnar format. The size of the poster should be A0 (height 120 cm, width 90 cm), which can be recorded on flipchart boards.
Decision and announcement
A panel decides on the awards and their decisions are final. Awards are announced at the closing dinner of the symposium.
Submission deadline: The upload deadline has ended.
Invited speakers to submit an abstract in word.docx format, comprising up to 350 words. Format the abstract as follows:
- Title
- Name
- Affiliation
- Email address
- Abstract text (up to 350)
- Acknowledgements
- All abstracts will be complied into a pdf online booklet.
Submission deadline: 27 September 2024
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Welcome to the 2nd Biomechanics in Sport and Ageing Symposium: Artificial Intelligence, organized by the Hungarian University of Sports Science and the Department of Kinesiology, Budapest, Hungary, 15-16 October 2024!
The aim of the symposium is to provide a scientific platform for a state-of-the-art update on the progress of artificial intelligence, AI, in sport biomechanics and ageing. Artificial intelligence relies on computers to execute commands that historically required human intelligence. Now, we have apps that offer talking digital assistant services, respond to voice and text requests, it can answer questions, write poetry, generate images, draft emails, analyze personal photos, set a timer or place a phone call. Indeed, as we can surmise it from Turing’s seminal paper, AI builds computational units that mimic human intelligence and abilities: language, communication, comprehension of concepts, automated thinking, (machine) learning, computer vision, and movements via robotics (1). Supervised or unsupervised machine learning, i.e., the science of coding computers to learn and behave as humans do, as a subset of AI, allows us to discern patterns and structure in data. Deep learning optimizes supervised learning and trains models to learn how to map an input to an expected output (2). All this occurring at a neck breaking pace so that “global governance is needed, otherwise the risk is social collapse” opines Paolo Benanti, a Vatican and Italian government advisor on AI ethics.
The tools of AI are also becoming ubiquitous in sport biomechanics and ageing research. Sport and ageing might appear unrelated. Yet we consider sport and ageing as complementary: assessment and training methods developed in sport science are transformed into diagnosis and treatment of ageing-related impairments. Along the spectrum from low and to high levels of physical and cognitive function, the current symposium highlights how AI is leveraged to assess and increase top performance, predict motor and cognitive function, and ultimately deliver improved care for all individuals across the lifespan, including athletes and seniors (3).
Accordingly, the lead keynote will introduce AI and the following two keynotes will provide a state-of-the-art overview of AI in sport and ageing. From 6 countries, 12 invited area-expert speakers will give (big) data-based examples for how AI is used in sport and ageing with respect to: Body structure and exercise prescription; Motor-cognitive function; Injury and disease, and Performance assessment and prediction in a workshop format.
Welcome to Budapest! Network, learn, and enjoy the symposium!
Sincerely yours,
Prof. dr. Tamás Sterbenz, PhD, Rector and Patron of the symposium
Prof. dr. h. c. Tibor Hortobágyi, PhD, chair of the scientific committee
Mr. Dániel Mezei and Ms. Eszter Kerekes, chairs of the organizing committee
References:
- Turing AM. On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Proc London Math Soc 58: 230–65, 1936.
- LeCun et al Deep learning. Nature 521: 436–44, 2015.
- Zhang et al Leveraging physiology and artificial intelligence to deliver advancements in health care. Physiol Rev 103: 2423–50, 2023.
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Welcome to the 3rd Biomechanics in Sport and Ageing Symposium: Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation, organised by the Hungarian University of Sports Science and the Department of Kinesiology, Budapest, Hungary, 13-14 October 2025!
The aim of the symposium is to provide a scientific platform for a state-of-the-art update on the progress in Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation with respect to sport biomechanics and ageing.
Sport and ageing might appear unrelated. Yet we consider sport and ageing as complementary: assessment and training methods developed in sport science are transformed into diagnosis and treatment of ageing-related impairments.
The symposium starts with two keynote presentations, which will be free of charge and open to the public. First, professor Anthony Blazevich (Edith Cowan University, Australia) will focus on muscle function and injury prevention in sport. Associate professor Jason Franz (UNC Chapel Hill & NC State University, USA) will provide an overview of how age affects the biomechanics of tendons in the lower extremities.
Then, registrants for the symposium will have the opportunity to attend two sessions of invited presentations on the biomechanics of the ageing musculoskeletal system and two sessions of invited presentations on injury prevention and rehabilitation on muscle and tendon injuries.
Session 1 will address the disease of the 21st century, muscle wasting or sarcopenia. Recent epidemiological studies and meta-reviews suggest that low skeletal muscle quantity and quality are associated with and can, if not corrected, exacerbate clinical conditions. Prevention of skeletal muscle loss and rehabilitation of dysfunctional muscles are thus at the pinnacle of experimental research. This is especially true with respect to ageing, as the senior segments of society have been growing in every country around the world. Because Parkinson’s disease often evolves in conjunction with ageing, it is relevant to minimize muscle loss in this debilitating condition.
Session 2 will also feature an international array of distinguished researchers addressing the exciting hypothesis that long-term sport participation protects against the age-related decline in musculoskeletal health. While this expectation is attractive, the data extracted from master athletes can be contradicting. Therefore, it is timely to provide an update on the role of lifelong physical activity plays in joint, bone, and muscle-tendon function.
Session 3 will kick off the second day of the symposium with a focus on new developments in understanding hamstring muscle structure and function. Experts will discuss how novel data from the level of motor units and sarcomeres to whole-body kinematics can be integrated into the practice of hamstring strain injury prevention.
Session 4 will provide a state-of-the-art overview of recent developments in Achilles tendon injuries. Presentations will provide a fresh perspective on how injuries modify the structure and function of the Achilles tendon. The session concludes with new insights into how to select exercise for the rehabilitation of Achilles tendinopathy.
The 3rd Symposium will end on a practical note: the local biomechanics group organise multiple workshops.
The workshops will demonstrate new methods that allow coaches and sport scientists to view and receive feedback on movement kinematics in real time. Additional workshops will feature technology used to examine architecture and function of muscles and tendons.
Special thank you goes to our sponsors! Without their support, the 3rd Biomechanics in Sport and Ageing Symposium would not be possible.
Welcome to Budapest! Network, learn, and enjoy the symposium!
Sincerely yours,
Prof. dr. Zsolt Radák, PhD, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation and Patron of the symposium
Dr. András Hegyi, PhD, Prof. dr. h. c. Tibor Hortobágyi, PhD, co-chairs of the scientific committee
Mr. Dániel Mezei, Ms. Eszter Kerekes, Ms. Kata Kádár, Dr. Annamária Péter, PhD co-chairs of the organising committee
