If I type “notation for systems of physical therapy” into Google the top results I get are Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation, Benesh Movement Notation and Laban Movement Analysis.
They are system made by dancers. They are general enough that they can also be used for describing non dancing movement.
In case I have missed something, do you know of a general system used by physical therapists which an controlled vocabularies that available online?
There a lot of money that goes in diagnosis equipment like fMRI”s, but not much for recording human movement in a analyzable way. Computer game designers who worked at Microsoft did work on the issue for kinect, but kinect isn’t really designed to be used for research purposes.
You can”t throw 10,000 dollar worth of high resolution camera’s at it to get clearer data. It would be nice if there would be open source bioinformatics software available for tasks like that.
I think we could learn a lot about how humans work by analyzing data like that instead of investing so much money into fMRI scanners and gene sequencing.
If I understand it right most of the software keeps the motion data in a pretty raw form. At 0.01 s the hand is that location A while at 0.02 s the hand is at location B. It doesn”t describe the timeframe of 0.01 till 0.60 as moving the arm to the right.
Especially it doesn”t have a well defined vocabulay for what moving a arm means. If you do moleculary biology you can download an ontology file in owl or obo which gives you a controlled vocabulary for describes moleculary biology.
Even controlled vocabulary to describe emotional states makes it into OBO Foundary.
If you want to make progress with science you need to have detailed language with specific meaning. But you are right, the movie industry and the game industry did produce some useful tools in that area. Much more than the medicine/biology/bioinformatics folks.
If I type “notation for systems of physical therapy” into Google the top results I get are Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation, Benesh Movement Notation and Laban Movement Analysis.
They are system made by dancers. They are general enough that they can also be used for describing non dancing movement.
In case I have missed something, do you know of a general system used by physical therapists which an controlled vocabularies that available online?
There a lot of money that goes in diagnosis equipment like fMRI”s, but not much for recording human movement in a analyzable way. Computer game designers who worked at Microsoft did work on the issue for kinect, but kinect isn’t really designed to be used for research purposes.
You can”t throw 10,000 dollar worth of high resolution camera’s at it to get clearer data. It would be nice if there would be open source bioinformatics software available for tasks like that. I think we could learn a lot about how humans work by analyzing data like that instead of investing so much money into fMRI scanners and gene sequencing.
Look at motion capture for computer animation, both for games and for movies?
If I understand it right most of the software keeps the motion data in a pretty raw form. At 0.01 s the hand is that location A while at 0.02 s the hand is at location B. It doesn”t describe the timeframe of 0.01 till 0.60 as moving the arm to the right.
Especially it doesn”t have a well defined vocabulay for what moving a arm means. If you do moleculary biology you can download an ontology file in owl or obo which gives you a controlled vocabulary for describes moleculary biology. Even controlled vocabulary to describe emotional states makes it into OBO Foundary.
If you want to make progress with science you need to have detailed language with specific meaning.
But you are right, the movie industry and the game industry did produce some useful tools in that area. Much more than the medicine/biology/bioinformatics folks.
Motion capture by itself probably doesn’t.
However things like skeletal animation systems probably do.
Sorry, I guess I was making an assumption and merely adding to the noise.