Sports Decision Review System: Hawk-eye or human eye?
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 12:30
in Psychology & Sociology
For ardent sports fans, decision review technology – popularly known as Hawk-Eye – is having a ‘marmite moment’. It’s either welcomed as a definitive mechanism to assist a referee make the right decision or an imperfect tool which has done nothing to improve the enjoyment of sporting fixtures. Now used in a wide range of games including football, tennis, hurling and Gaelic football, it has often proved controversial.