Human Motion Project - Overview
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Bioinformatics, Clinical Trials, Evidence Based Medicine, Kinesiology, Science and Medical Education
- Keywords
- acceleromics, gait, balance, walking, falls, natural running
- Copyright
- © 2014 Daumer
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Human Motion Project - Overview. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e257v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.257v2
Abstract
The vision of the Human Motion Project is to become a successful analogue of the Human Genome Project: improving human health by an open collaborative technology platform for the mobile medical monitoring of human motion. The basis is a growing “critical path toolbox” and a biomedical data warehouse for collecting, archiving, analysing, and disseminating human motion data including a library of validated algorithms.
The "human accelerom", i.e. objective long term information about a person's physical activity, carries information about health status and disease risk. It can be used to define novel outcome measures for clinical trials. Physical inactivity should be understood as a modifiable risk factor.
Author Comment
This poster was presented at the "First Winter Symposium of The Human Motion Project" in February 2014, Munich (program can be found at http://www.thehumanmotioninstitute.org/node/177).