Towards a DGSS prototype for early warning for ski injuries

Abstract

This paper reports on our ongoing research in ski injury analysis. We propose a decision guidance support system for early warning for ski injuries. We report several injury patterns in form of IF-THEN rules which could be used to build a decision guidance support system for early warning for ski injuries. The rules are induced from data merged from two databases, namely the Mountaineer rescue service database and the Ski gate entrances database. Around 2000 injuries from year 2006 to year 2011 were analyzed. Based on movement of skiers (recorded through ski gates on each lift) several statistics for each accident (e.g. average speed of skier, average weight of slopes) have been calculated.