Peter Cavanagh, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Department of Orhtopaedics & Sports Medicine
(Comp., Robotics, & Exp. Biomechanics Lab)
E-mail: cavanagh@uw...


TITLE:

"Remote Monitoring of Human Movement"

ABSTRACT:

The analysis of human movement has traditionally been conducted in biomechanics
laboratories where a few steps of gait or other movements have been studied to
characterize pathology or rehabilitation status.  The advent of wearable sensors
with on-board data storage or a wireless connection to a smartphone has opened
new possibilities for more ecologically valid monitoring of people in their own
environments.  This seminar will discuss three such applications from the fields of
sports medicine, rehabilitation from knee joint replacement, and exercise during
space travel. Machine learning adds a new dimension to such monitoring because
it allows recognition of specific activities from a parsimonious data set. A live
demonstration of one of the applications will be presented.