About the Authors

Calvin Kuo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

calvink@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America

Lyndia Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America

Jesus Loza

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America

Daniel Senif

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Stanford Sports Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America

Scott C. Anderson

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Stanford Sports Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America

David B. Camarillo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors are developing the Stanford Mouthguard used in this study as a research device to study mild traumatic brain injury, and the findings of this study may help inform sensor design. Some of the authors are coinventors on Stanford-owned patents related to head impact detection (patent 14/199,716: “Device for Detecting On-Body Impacts” with Lyndia Wu and David Camarillo listed as inventors) and mechanical design (patent 15/373,454: “Oral Appliance for Measuring Head Motions by Isolating Sensors from Jaw Perturbance” with Calvin Kuo, Lyndia Wu, and David Camarillo listed as inventors) of an instrumented mouthguard. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.