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| Innovation in envisioning dynamic biomechanical data to inform healthcare and design guidelines and strategy | | Author(s) | Alastair Macdonald, Catherine Docherty, David Loudon |
| Corporate Author | New Dynamics of Ageing Programme - NDA; Glasgow School of Art |
| Publisher | New Dynamics of Ageing - NDA, Sheffield, 2009 |
| Pages | 7 pp (NDA Findings 1) |
| Source | NDA Research Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Musculoskeletal systems ; Self care capacity ; Design ; Methodology ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | The method of visualising dynamic biomechanical data enables those without specialist training - both professional and lay people - to access and interpret such data. This research evaluated an innovative way of communicating and understanding the complexity of older people's mobility problems using visualisation of objective dynamic movement data. In previous research, a prototype software tool was created, which visualises, for non-biomechanical specialists and lay audiences, dynamic biomechanical data captured from older people undertaking activities of daily living (ADLs). From motion capture data and muscle strength measurements,a 3D animated human "stick figure" was generated, on which the biomechanical demands of the activities were represented visually at the joints (represented as a percentage of maximum capability, using a continuous colour gradient from green at 0%, amber at 50% through to red at 100%). The potential healthcare and design applications for the visualisations were evaluated through a series of interviews and focus groups with older people, and health care and design professionals, and through a specialist workshop for professionals. These findings outline the merits of this cross-disciplinary approach in providing a deeper understanding to healthcare and design planning that is to older people's benefit. Initial findings were presented at a national Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity (SPARC) seminar. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091112206 P |
| Classmark | C4: BK6: CA: 33: 3D: 3A:6KC * |
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