Interdisciplinary Development of a Biokinematic Data Acquisition System

SPRING 2016 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES 

PI: Richard West (Computer Science, CAS)
Collaborators: Cara Lewis (Health Sciences, SAR), Sheryl Grace (Mechanical Engineering, ENG)

This project is developing an on-body, biokinematic data acquisition and analysis tool that tracks the body position of ice hockey skaters during stride production. This research aims to inform future inquiries in the following areas: physical therapy research that investigates in lab versus in community scenarios; mechanical engineering research that looks at the control of multi-unit systems such as unmanned air vehicles; and computer science research that focuses on optimization of scheduling and timing as well as the development of operating systems for other microprocessing platforms.

This work is funded by a Hariri Research Award made in January, 2016.