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The demand for objective data to support decision making prompted the adoption of wearables that evolve to fulfil the aims of assessing athletes and practitioners as closely as possible with their performance environments. In the present paper, we mention and discuss the advancements in ubiquitous computing in sports and physical activity in the past 5 years. Thus, recent developments in wearable sensors, cloud computing and artificial intelligence tools have been the pillars for a major change in the ways sport-related analyses are performed. The focus of our analysis is wearable technology, computer vision solutions for markerless tracking and their major contribution to the process of acquiring more representative data from uninhibited actions in realistic ecological conditions. We selected relevant literature on the applications of such approaches in various areas of sports and physical activity while outlining some limitations of the present-day data acquisition and data processing practices and the resulting sensors\u2019 functionalities, as well as the limitations to the data-driven informed decision making in the current technological and scientific framework. Finally, we hypothesise that a continuous merger of measurement, processing and analysis will lead to the development of more reliable models utilising the advantages of open computing and unrestricted data access and allow for the development of personalised-medicine-type approaches to sport training and performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22218370","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,2]],"date-time":"2022-11-02T08:15:12Z","timestamp":1667376912000},"page":"8370","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Ubiquitous Computing in Sports and Physical Activity\u2014Recent Trends and Developments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Arnold","family":"Baca","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Sport Science and University Sports, University of Vienna, 1150 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Dabnichki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"STEM College, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3301-6493","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Che-Wei","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"STEM College, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Philipp","family":"Kornfeind","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Sport Science and University Sports, University of Vienna, 1150 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Juliana","family":"Exel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Sport Science and University Sports, University of Vienna, 1150 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1335","DOI":"10.1080\/02640410903277427","article-title":"Ubiquitous computing in sports: A review and analysis","volume":"27","author":"Baca","year":"2009","journal-title":"J. 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