We developed Sports Support System that augments the perception of beginner players and supports situation awareness to motivate beginners in multiplayer sports through visual and haptic feedback. Our system provides positional relationship of the opponents using visual feedback. In addition, the position of the opponent beyond the field of view was provided using haptic feedback. An experiment of pass interception as used to compare the visual and haptic feedback. The results confirmed the effectiveness and characteristics of these feedback processes in a multiplayer ball game.

In order to fill the gap between various levels of ball game players, we propose the Sports Support System that can reduce the difference among the skills of various players by augmenting the traditional ball game. We implemented a system that visualizes the trajectory and velocity of the ball for soccer games, as one example of ball games. This visualization and the enhancement of the player positions in the field can help beginner players recognize what they should do next and improve their playing skills. This paper introduces the proposed system and discusses, through a user study, its effectiveness for improving reaction speed and enhancing the pleasure of playing sports. Based on the experiment results, the proposed system contributes to reaction time improvements in passing and receiving the ball, i.e., one of the most important skills in playing soccer.