Enriching Practice Understanding for Leisure-Time Squash Players

Squash is a fast-paced racket sport widely played for fitness and enjoyment. Many leisure-time players practice without professional coaching, often learning from online videos and relying on their own perception during play. However, because rallies unfold quickly, players may struggle to track the ball, judge shot validity, identify decisive moments, or understand why a rally ended. Although practice videos can support review, raw footage often remains difficult to interpret, especially for players who lack knowledge, and when the ball is small and fast-movin. We explore how squash practice videos can be enriched to support practice understanding among leisure-time players. We gathered feedback from squash players to identify the information they need when reviewing practice and used these insights to propose a dedicated design space. We next elicit designs that highlight squash-specific information such as ball visibility, movement trajectory, court areas, shot validity, and rally-level summaries. By embedding our designs into recorded first-person squash practice videos, we use enriched videos as probes to examine how players interpret their practice and reflect on their performance.
Our ultimate goal is to design for and support leisure-time players’ practice from a first-person perspective.