Measuring human movement to protect the body from falls. — Laboratory of Biometric Information Processing

You were walking and tripped. You slipped in the bathroom. In such moments, wouldn't it be possible to detect anomalies from ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

How Geometry Shapes Body Movements When Dozens of Muscles Act Together

Coordinating dozens of muscles typically requires complex neural control, and it is unclear how much of that coordination must come from the brain versus the body’s structure. Professor Mitra Hartmann ...
Rolling Out

5 movements that age your body faster than you think

The way we move through the world impacts our bodies far more profoundly than most people realize. While nutrition and skincare routinely dominate anti-aging discussions, movement patterns often exert ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

New App Performs Real-Time, Full-Body Motion Capture with a Mobile Device

The team developed MobilePoser, a new system that leverages sensors already embedded within consumer mobile devices to accurately track a person’s full-body pose and global translation in space in ...
Phys.org

Japanese motion capture lab builds body movement database to explore cultural nuances in emotional expression

Facial expressions are not the only way we express our emotions—body language also plays a crucial role. The way our body moves when laughing at a comedy show is different from how we move when ...
Medical Xpress

Spontaneous baby movements are important for development of coordinated sensorimotor system

Spontaneous, random baby movements aid development of their sensorimotor system, according to new research led by the University of Tokyo. Detailed motion capture of newborns and infants was combined ...