Overview
- Supports those working in human motion analysis & its uses, with current reference material
- Describes the broad variety of approaches & technologies, including capabilities & limitations
- Links different areas of application, showing experts solutions from other spheres of knowledge
- Opens knowledge transfer opportunities between all disciplines relevant to human motion
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Over the past century, technology has made it possible to measure human motion in many ways and with new levels of precision, becoming a tool in many applications and professional branches including medicine, sports science and forensics. Some branches have developed in response to the technology, such as the emergence of motion-capture animation in the film industry. These different applications use the same or similar types of equipment with the general intention of making the systems as intuitive as possible for the participants. However, the methodologies necessary to produce reliable results in these areas differ enormously. The overlap of information between fields might lead to situations where small but important adaptations are required in order to produce the required result; experts with knowledge of one field might not be aware of such developments. The Handbook of Human Motion brings together contributions from many different disciplines, covering the established and emerging technologies employed, the challenges posed in each area of application and the novel solutions reached by researchers.
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Keywords
- Animation Motion Techniques
- Clinical Motion Capture
- Human Motion Analysis
- Human Motion Capture
- Human Movement Analysis
- Injury Rehabilitation
- Medical Applications in Human Motion
- Motion Analysis Handbook
- Motion Analysis Reference Work
- Motion Analysis Technology
- Motion Pattern Analysis
- Motion Science
- Sports Performance
- Sports Science Handbook
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
With a strong interest in bridging Engineering and Medicine, and following the completion of two degrees in Precision Mechanics and Electronics from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (and a third in General Engineering), Bertram Mueller attended the Bioengineering Unit at the University of Strathclyde in 1995 in order to acquire more knowledge about Life Sciences.
In 2000, he moved to Barcelona, where he managed a clinical biomechanics laboratory until 2012. He now works as a consultant and clinical scientist in applied biomechanics, covering both clinical and sports as well as legal aspects of the field, including a strong focus on functional capacity evaluation. As an Associate Professor, he is currently teaching Physics, Biomechanics and Clinical Motion Analysis at the University of Girona, the University of Barcelona, the Olympic Sports Centre in St. Cugat and the National Institute of Physical Education. Besides being a reviewer for several journals, he is alsoEditor-in-Chief of the Journal of Forensic Biomechanics.With a PhD degree in physics, Sebastian Wolf spent several years in fundamental research in physics before he moved to the field of motion analysis in 2001. As leader of the gait analysis lab of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Heidelberg he supervises a scientific group involved in clinical applications of gait analysis including prosthetics and orthotics as well as neurologic gait disorders.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Human Motion
Editors: Bertram Müller, Sebastian Wolf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30808-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Engineering, Reference Module Computer Science and Engineering
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30808-1Due: 16 June 2021
Number of Illustrations: 76 b/w illustrations, 446 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Forensic Medicine, Biometrics, Sport Science