Monday, the 23th of May:
I decided to spend more efford into my blog ans my portfolio...
Maybe I should buy my own webspace... I hate the ads on it...
And it´s fuckin slow... :(
Thursday, the 4th of november:
Now I`m writing the 2 other essays... The reflections for the courses We Create Identity and Web Technology. In this moment I`m not quite sure what to write but I hope it will come while writing.
Sunday, the 24th of october:
Now: I´m so happy, my essay is ready and the intractive video also seems to be so.
If you want to read it, I have put it below.
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Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2010
My essay
Essay by Sabrina Stocker
Assistive technologies at football
During the World Cup in South-Africa 2010, there was a maybe match changing goal not token for granted, because the referee and the linesman just did not see it.
It would have been the 2:2 and so the equalise goal for England. But the referee and the linesman both stood in a position where their local conditions and its perspective makes it impossible to see whether the ball is behind, on or in front of the line. Also as the ball dashes 40 cm behind the goal´s line.
Now the World Cup is a few months ago but nevertheless I would like to use this goal and all the other wrong decisions as a reason to take a look at possible assistive technologies at football.
First of all I would like to give you an overview of my essay:
1. In what kind of situations does the referee have to make decisions and when does he mesh.
Page 2
2. Which assistive technologies are allowed at other sports.
Page 3
3. Technologies, that could be used at football
Page 4
4. Public opinions
Page 5
5. Conclusion
Page 6
6 Indication of source
Page 7
1. In what kind of situations does the referee have to make decisions and when does he mesh.
The referee has to make a lot of decisions, it starts a few minutes before the match itself starts. He has to control the football ground and decide, whether it is possible to play on this ground or not. For sure this is no hard decision, it should nearly be possible to play football on every ground, but if it is an important match, the ground should be blameless.
If you have ever see a match, where this is nearly the only decision he has to made, you really have seen the most boring football match in the history.
Clearly the referee has to act when someone scores a goal, then he has to give the goal. Or if something went wrong, he does not give it, but this is not that often.
You may think this is the easiest part, if you remember my intro, you will see that it is not that easy, also if you have some help by the linesman.
Next the referee has to mesh, if someone makes a foul, for sure he can only react, if he get the foul. Then he has to determine whether it is a bad foul or not. So he can choose which kind of discipline seems to be the right one: a free kick, a red card, a yellow card, a penalty kick, or if he just let the match run, because there is an advantage for the team, which got fouled. For sure there are also fouls where no one got fouled, for example the handball. This is one of the worst fouls.
Moreover the referee has to interact, when it ball goes outside the football ground. But here he gets help by the linesmen. Then he has to give a trow-in or a corner ball, this depends on where the ball lefts the ground.For sure the team, who did not had contact to the ball the last time gets the ball.
An last but not least the offside. One of the favourite fouls that are possible. And sometimes it is really hard to see, because it depends on the moment where someone pass the ball to a team-mate, and the linesman has to see where the team-mate, who gets the ball was at the moment when the pass starts. I think it is really hard to see so much things at the same time. Maybe this is a reason why some teams really try to include offside in their tactics, but that is not a nice way to get a goal.
2. Which assistive technologies are allowed at other sports.
The most usual assistive technology is a simple watch. It is used in nearly every sport.
And no one would ever say: “Hey, you use a watch to decide, whether this man runs faster then an other one.“
Clearly a watch is a very simple technology but it is one.
That is not all, what we find if we look for assistive technologies in sports.
In a lot of sports the video proof is admitted.
But every sport does it on it is own way.
For example the video proof in the NFL (Americas “National Football League“), here it is two times per matched allowed to the team´s head-coach to appeal every decision the referee made. Then the referee looks at the videos, that are made for the television, and decides again.
It is also accepted at ice hockey its different, in some leagues you have a camera in the goal, here you can see whether the puck passes over the goal´s line or not.
But in the NHL (the north American “National Hockey League“) its really special. Here you have a video-referee, which is in the NHL-department and watches all the match´s camera perspectives, for sure life. When a video proof is necessary, the video referee calls the normal referee and tells him to go into the video box, where he can see the videos himself to make a decision.
Moreover its admitted to use the video proof in basketball. Here it is used for every kind of decision. It does not matter whether it is a shot-clock (because it is not allowed to take more time than 24 seconds for each attack, and the video proof can show, if the ball left the players hand in time),a foul, a lack of sportsmanship, or what ever.
And last but not least it also allowed at tennis.
But not at football.
3. Technologies, that could be used at football
For sure they could use the video proof or the goal camera. The different ways how to use a video proof are notedly mentioned at other sports.
But today´s technology makes so much more feasible then a simple camera.
One interesting concept is called „Chip-Ball“, it is created by Adidas, the Fraunhofer-Institut für integrierte Schaltungen and the company Cairos Technologies AG. It is a football with an included ASIC-chip and a transmitter, to send data.
The ASIC-chip (application specific integrated circuit) is a special electrical circuit, that makes it impossible to manipulate the Chip-Ball. This chip is placed in the middle of the ball and sends radio signals to the referee, who wears a receiver in his wristlet. Surely the chip only sends these signals, if the ball passes the outlines or the goal´s line.
Moreover you could put GPS-chips in the footballer´s shoes to decide, if there is an offside. I have never heard about something like that in sports but it should not be difficult to realise it. It would be very helpful for the linesman, which has to kook at so much things on the same time.
Additional they could use wristlets, which shows, if football player from different teams touch each other. I´m not sure how it works but I have seen something like that at a TV-show. So if the referee is not sure whether a player fouls another one, he could exclude it, when the wristlets tells, that there was no contact, between these two players.
4. Public opinions
There are two parties. The ones who want assistive technologies at football to be allowed and the ones who does not want to change something at this sport.
And both parties have their arguments.
I will split these parties into two different groups. The fans and the FIFA.
Let me start with the FIFA.
On the one hand there is the secretary general and president of the FIFA, Joseph Blatt decide to ban the Chip-Ball from the football, because he thinks that everyone should play football with the same rules, from the champions league to small kids, who are the first time on the football ground. He would miss the human component, when he would allow assistive technologies. In his opinion football mainly is that popular because of its simpleness. He will maybe solve the problems with 2 additional assistive referees, who stands continuously at the goals line and look, whether the ball was inside the goal or not.
On the other hand the referees are really interested in any assistive technology they could get, because it is impossible to se everything.
The referee specialist Helmut Krug from the DFL (Deutschen Fußball Liga) criticise, that it is a bad decision, which bans the Chip-Ball from the football. No referee is proud on a wrong decision, he made, that influence the hole match.
And also Franz Beckenbauer realises the time to make a change. He thinks that assistive technologies should be used in football, but football lives with its emotions, so it should also be possible to make mistakes at all.
Now I will show you the other party: The football fans.
About 70 % of all football fans advocates the Chip-Ball and the video proof. They would like to use these assistive technologies to correct the referees wrong decisions. 22 % of them would use it only at the question: „Was it a goal or not?“
So 48 % also want to use these tools when someone maybe made a handball or something like that.
Only 28 % of the football fans are strictly against assistive technologies.
The funny part of this is, that 42 % of them are in a age between 14 and 19, people who use technical things the hole day long and only 15 % of the football fans, who are against assistive technologies are older then 60 years.
6. Conclusion
My conclusion:
I understand the fear of assistive technologies antagonists. Maybe football would not be that emotionally anymore if you control everything. And maybe football lives from the referees mistakes.
But when we talk about football, there is also a lot of money, we are talking about.
If a referee makes a bad mistake and so the wrong team wins the match, they also get a lot of money for it. (For example at the World Cup final)
So they should change something. Maybe the two additional referees are a good solution.
I would let football that human without much assistive technologies, but all this technologies should find a place where they can be used and where they get their acknowledgement.
This should find it is place in a a new sport, maybe named tech-ball or something like this, where you can use every technical things you want to use, everything would be allowed. From the assistive technologies for the referees to everything the coaches or player want to use. For sure this will get very strange and confusing, but I think it would also be very funny.
7. Indication of source
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videobeweis
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_im_Ball
http://www.handelsblatt.com/magazin/fussball/fussball-fifa-krug-fuer-technische-hilfsmittel-im-fussball;2550574
http://www.bitkom.org/de/presse/8477_64146.aspx
http://www.news.de/sport/4867/enke-fordert-torkamera/1/
Assistive technologies at football
During the World Cup in South-Africa 2010, there was a maybe match changing goal not token for granted, because the referee and the linesman just did not see it.
It would have been the 2:2 and so the equalise goal for England. But the referee and the linesman both stood in a position where their local conditions and its perspective makes it impossible to see whether the ball is behind, on or in front of the line. Also as the ball dashes 40 cm behind the goal´s line.
Now the World Cup is a few months ago but nevertheless I would like to use this goal and all the other wrong decisions as a reason to take a look at possible assistive technologies at football.
First of all I would like to give you an overview of my essay:
1. In what kind of situations does the referee have to make decisions and when does he mesh.
Page 2
2. Which assistive technologies are allowed at other sports.
Page 3
3. Technologies, that could be used at football
Page 4
4. Public opinions
Page 5
5. Conclusion
Page 6
6 Indication of source
Page 7
1. In what kind of situations does the referee have to make decisions and when does he mesh.
The referee has to make a lot of decisions, it starts a few minutes before the match itself starts. He has to control the football ground and decide, whether it is possible to play on this ground or not. For sure this is no hard decision, it should nearly be possible to play football on every ground, but if it is an important match, the ground should be blameless.
If you have ever see a match, where this is nearly the only decision he has to made, you really have seen the most boring football match in the history.
Clearly the referee has to act when someone scores a goal, then he has to give the goal. Or if something went wrong, he does not give it, but this is not that often.
You may think this is the easiest part, if you remember my intro, you will see that it is not that easy, also if you have some help by the linesman.
Next the referee has to mesh, if someone makes a foul, for sure he can only react, if he get the foul. Then he has to determine whether it is a bad foul or not. So he can choose which kind of discipline seems to be the right one: a free kick, a red card, a yellow card, a penalty kick, or if he just let the match run, because there is an advantage for the team, which got fouled. For sure there are also fouls where no one got fouled, for example the handball. This is one of the worst fouls.
Moreover the referee has to interact, when it ball goes outside the football ground. But here he gets help by the linesmen. Then he has to give a trow-in or a corner ball, this depends on where the ball lefts the ground.For sure the team, who did not had contact to the ball the last time gets the ball.
An last but not least the offside. One of the favourite fouls that are possible. And sometimes it is really hard to see, because it depends on the moment where someone pass the ball to a team-mate, and the linesman has to see where the team-mate, who gets the ball was at the moment when the pass starts. I think it is really hard to see so much things at the same time. Maybe this is a reason why some teams really try to include offside in their tactics, but that is not a nice way to get a goal.
2. Which assistive technologies are allowed at other sports.
The most usual assistive technology is a simple watch. It is used in nearly every sport.
And no one would ever say: “Hey, you use a watch to decide, whether this man runs faster then an other one.“
Clearly a watch is a very simple technology but it is one.
That is not all, what we find if we look for assistive technologies in sports.
In a lot of sports the video proof is admitted.
But every sport does it on it is own way.
For example the video proof in the NFL (Americas “National Football League“), here it is two times per matched allowed to the team´s head-coach to appeal every decision the referee made. Then the referee looks at the videos, that are made for the television, and decides again.
It is also accepted at ice hockey its different, in some leagues you have a camera in the goal, here you can see whether the puck passes over the goal´s line or not.
But in the NHL (the north American “National Hockey League“) its really special. Here you have a video-referee, which is in the NHL-department and watches all the match´s camera perspectives, for sure life. When a video proof is necessary, the video referee calls the normal referee and tells him to go into the video box, where he can see the videos himself to make a decision.
Moreover its admitted to use the video proof in basketball. Here it is used for every kind of decision. It does not matter whether it is a shot-clock (because it is not allowed to take more time than 24 seconds for each attack, and the video proof can show, if the ball left the players hand in time),a foul, a lack of sportsmanship, or what ever.
And last but not least it also allowed at tennis.
But not at football.
3. Technologies, that could be used at football
For sure they could use the video proof or the goal camera. The different ways how to use a video proof are notedly mentioned at other sports.
But today´s technology makes so much more feasible then a simple camera.
One interesting concept is called „Chip-Ball“, it is created by Adidas, the Fraunhofer-Institut für integrierte Schaltungen and the company Cairos Technologies AG. It is a football with an included ASIC-chip and a transmitter, to send data.
The ASIC-chip (application specific integrated circuit) is a special electrical circuit, that makes it impossible to manipulate the Chip-Ball. This chip is placed in the middle of the ball and sends radio signals to the referee, who wears a receiver in his wristlet. Surely the chip only sends these signals, if the ball passes the outlines or the goal´s line.
Moreover you could put GPS-chips in the footballer´s shoes to decide, if there is an offside. I have never heard about something like that in sports but it should not be difficult to realise it. It would be very helpful for the linesman, which has to kook at so much things on the same time.
Additional they could use wristlets, which shows, if football player from different teams touch each other. I´m not sure how it works but I have seen something like that at a TV-show. So if the referee is not sure whether a player fouls another one, he could exclude it, when the wristlets tells, that there was no contact, between these two players.
4. Public opinions
There are two parties. The ones who want assistive technologies at football to be allowed and the ones who does not want to change something at this sport.
And both parties have their arguments.
I will split these parties into two different groups. The fans and the FIFA.
Let me start with the FIFA.
On the one hand there is the secretary general and president of the FIFA, Joseph Blatt decide to ban the Chip-Ball from the football, because he thinks that everyone should play football with the same rules, from the champions league to small kids, who are the first time on the football ground. He would miss the human component, when he would allow assistive technologies. In his opinion football mainly is that popular because of its simpleness. He will maybe solve the problems with 2 additional assistive referees, who stands continuously at the goals line and look, whether the ball was inside the goal or not.
On the other hand the referees are really interested in any assistive technology they could get, because it is impossible to se everything.
The referee specialist Helmut Krug from the DFL (Deutschen Fußball Liga) criticise, that it is a bad decision, which bans the Chip-Ball from the football. No referee is proud on a wrong decision, he made, that influence the hole match.
And also Franz Beckenbauer realises the time to make a change. He thinks that assistive technologies should be used in football, but football lives with its emotions, so it should also be possible to make mistakes at all.
Now I will show you the other party: The football fans.
About 70 % of all football fans advocates the Chip-Ball and the video proof. They would like to use these assistive technologies to correct the referees wrong decisions. 22 % of them would use it only at the question: „Was it a goal or not?“
So 48 % also want to use these tools when someone maybe made a handball or something like that.
Only 28 % of the football fans are strictly against assistive technologies.
The funny part of this is, that 42 % of them are in a age between 14 and 19, people who use technical things the hole day long and only 15 % of the football fans, who are against assistive technologies are older then 60 years.
6. Conclusion
My conclusion:
I understand the fear of assistive technologies antagonists. Maybe football would not be that emotionally anymore if you control everything. And maybe football lives from the referees mistakes.
But when we talk about football, there is also a lot of money, we are talking about.
If a referee makes a bad mistake and so the wrong team wins the match, they also get a lot of money for it. (For example at the World Cup final)
So they should change something. Maybe the two additional referees are a good solution.
I would let football that human without much assistive technologies, but all this technologies should find a place where they can be used and where they get their acknowledgement.
This should find it is place in a a new sport, maybe named tech-ball or something like this, where you can use every technical things you want to use, everything would be allowed. From the assistive technologies for the referees to everything the coaches or player want to use. For sure this will get very strange and confusing, but I think it would also be very funny.
7. Indication of source
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videobeweis
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_im_Ball
http://www.handelsblatt.com/magazin/fussball/fussball-fifa-krug-fuer-technische-hilfsmittel-im-fussball;2550574
http://www.bitkom.org/de/presse/8477_64146.aspx
http://www.news.de/sport/4867/enke-fordert-torkamera/1/
Montag, 4. Oktober 2010
What I am doing in this moment....
Saturday, the 23th of october:
This time I really try to do something else then my essay. But I think I should finish it in a short time.
I also write some pages, but I can´t concentrate, because my boyfriend left this morning
to visit his family and I would love to be somewhere else then in Enschede this weekend.
A good friend (she is one year younger then me and not that long engaged then me) got a baby this tuesday and I would love to visit her and Damien Luca.
I never thought that I´m not the first one in my circle of friends, who is married and gets a baby and some stuff like that.
But it will took about 5 more years until I get marriend and I´m not sure, whether I really want to get children. It´s crazy how differend school-friend´s life went.
But now I should write something for my essay....
Some days ago:
At this moment I´m waiting for my boyfriend to stop doing some fucking noise.
He dosn´t want to do something for his school... So I can´t do something because he is...
...watching TV...
...vacuum the floor...
..ect...
I´m getting lunatic.
Monday the 6th:
At the moment I´m getting crazy, because I make my postcard...
Exactly it means I´m drawing the skeleton of a puzzle...
Have you ever done something terrible?
It costs to much time and its so mindless..
And then I have to cut peaces out of pictures in this form again...
I don´t want to think about this by now....
After all this mindless stuff I also have to write something about CreaTe
on the backside...
Does anyone of you have an idea what I can write??
Before I have done this I made the rewies....
I hate doning things like that... I think it is really hard to rate people I do not really know...
If I rate someone unfair I´m sorry, that wasn´t my intention...
This time I really try to do something else then my essay. But I think I should finish it in a short time.
I also write some pages, but I can´t concentrate, because my boyfriend left this morning
to visit his family and I would love to be somewhere else then in Enschede this weekend.
A good friend (she is one year younger then me and not that long engaged then me) got a baby this tuesday and I would love to visit her and Damien Luca.
I never thought that I´m not the first one in my circle of friends, who is married and gets a baby and some stuff like that.
But it will took about 5 more years until I get marriend and I´m not sure, whether I really want to get children. It´s crazy how differend school-friend´s life went.
But now I should write something for my essay....
Some days ago:
At this moment I´m waiting for my boyfriend to stop doing some fucking noise.
He dosn´t want to do something for his school... So I can´t do something because he is...
...watching TV...
...vacuum the floor...
..ect...
I´m getting lunatic.
Monday the 6th:
At the moment I´m getting crazy, because I make my postcard...
Exactly it means I´m drawing the skeleton of a puzzle...
Have you ever done something terrible?
It costs to much time and its so mindless..
And then I have to cut peaces out of pictures in this form again...
I don´t want to think about this by now....
After all this mindless stuff I also have to write something about CreaTe
on the backside...
Does anyone of you have an idea what I can write??
Before I have done this I made the rewies....
I hate doning things like that... I think it is really hard to rate people I do not really know...
If I rate someone unfair I´m sorry, that wasn´t my intention...
Samstag, 2. Oktober 2010
My essay´s topic
I thougt very long, and it was really hard for me to find a topic.
Then I saw pictures from the Football World Cup and there was my topic.
How many technical tools should be used at football?
What technical tools are used in other sports?
And something like that...
I will post my essay here when it´s ready...
Until then... Have fun with my blog....
Then I saw pictures from the Football World Cup and there was my topic.
How many technical tools should be used at football?
What technical tools are used in other sports?
And something like that...
I will post my essay here when it´s ready...
Until then... Have fun with my blog....
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