A biomechanical analysis system of posture
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Abstract
The number of scenarios that may gain benefits from postural analysis performed with sustainable economic costs is virtually limitless. They range from clinical and outpatient studies to sport and dance practicing, from posture learning and replication for humanoid robots to body control techniques. Therefore the authors firmly believe that the Microsoft Kinect, a novel optical markerless, model-free motion/capture commercial system can pave the way towards this direction due to its ease of usage and its low costs. In this paper, a Model-View-Controller based framework for Kinect-based postural analysis is presented in terms of both system architecture and selected test environment. A first prototypal version of the system has been employed to perform a preliminary stabilometric analysis in a real test case, in order to illustrate the adopted natural user interface and the overall system behavior.
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