Abstract

Computer science has become an important partner for sport science. Although many cases for the successful application of computers in sport exist, only a few meta-theoretical mediations on this research field can be found. To fill this gap, this paper examines the quality of interdisciplinary cooperation between computer science and sport science. Using existing models of interdisciplinarity it classifies research activities into four types of cooperation. Because knowledge is often only transferred “one-way” from computer science to sport science, it emphasizes the importance of “genuine” interdisciplinary research. Finally, the paper gives a compact definition of the discipline sport informatics and proposes a graphical model, which illustrates its subject matter and the structural relations between sport science, computer science and their fields of application. Verf.-Referat