Gait analysis of people walking on tactile ground surface indicators

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-59

  Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki ^a   Takashima, Takamichi ^b   Hayashi, Mieko ^a   Fujimoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Inverse dynamics; Legged locomotion; Motion analysis; Motion measurement; Tactile ground surface indicators

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HAPTIC INTERFACES; VISION;

CONVEXITIES; TACTILE GROUND SURFACE INDICATORS;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DYNAMICS; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; LEG LENGTH; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TACTILE GROUND SURFACE INDICATOR; TOE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WALKING;

ADULT; CUES; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TORQUE; TOUCH;

EID: 16344366208     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2004.841880     Document Type: Article

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