Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Human Performance
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CIPER
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CIPER's activity plan, "Promoting Human Functioning through Physical Activity and Sport During the Life-Course," aligns with WHO's concept of human functioning, integrating biological and lived health comprehensively. Human kinetics, CIPER’s research focus, explores human movement's role in health, employing an interdisciplinary and technological approach for innovative insights.
Research Group
Skill Learning
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Research Overview
Skill learning involves processes responsible for changes in movement performance over time due to specific practices, emphasizing the environment and variability. Strategically, the group is focusing on understanding sport performance with a program of work that integrates information, technology, and theory, avoiding mere ‘datification’.
Exercise Precision
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Scientific research with a vision and appraisal that responds to the need to reduce measurement error and optimize individualized adaptations to exercise to achieve meaningful group changes in the medium and long term.
Neuromuscular Biomechanics
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Research Overview
The focus of the Neuromuscular Biomechanics is to investigate the response of the musculoskeletal system to mechanical stimulation and to ascertain the role of this response to optimized human performance, as well as on the understanding and prevention of pathological conditions related to mechanical loading.
Behavioral Regulation
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Research Overview
This research group encompasses four main research areas focusing on the study of behavior change in the areas of physical activity, exercise, eating behavior, digital biomarkers, and serious games - in relation to different exposures and interventions and how they relate to various outcomes of health and well-being, physical and/or mental.
Featured publications
Articles
Corrigendum to: Cross-cultural validation of children’s assessment of participation and enjoyment portuguese
Vila-Nova, F., Oliveira, R., & Cordovil, R. (2019a). Corrigendum to: Cross-cultural validation of children’s assessment of participation and enjoyment portuguese. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 7, 167. doi: 10.3389/fped.2019.00167.
Book Chapters
Skill Learning
Serious games based on kinect and leap motion controller for upper limbs physical rehabilitation
