Abstract des Autors

Over the past three decades, the discipline 'sport informatics' – also called 'computer science in sport' – has become a growing discipline. In this chapter the historical roots are reconstructed and some reflections on the nature of this new discipline between sport science and informatics are given. The first chapter of this book reflects the development of the discipline, analyses its current situation and defines the subject area. The roots of the discipline of sport informatics lie in Germany in the early seventies and the first section in this chapter will throw a brief glance on the early developments. It aims to give readers an impression of the prevailing ideas leading to IACSS (the International Association of Computer Science in Sport). The second section discusses the interdisciplinary relation between computer science and sport science and identifies different types of cooperation. Based on this discussion the third section defines the subject area of sport informatics by providing a definition and a structural model of the discipline. (geändert)