Measuring behavior using motion capture
Date: Wednesday, August 27
Time: 09:30-16:30
Location: Rome
Chair: Wim Fikkert, Herman van der Kooij, Zsofia Ruttkay and Herwin van Welbergen (University of Twente, the Netherlands)

Motion capture systems, using optical, magnetic or mechanical sensors are now widely used to record human motion. Motion capture provides us with precise measurements of human motion at a very high recording frequency and accuracy, resulting in a massive amount of movement data on several joints of the body or markers of the face. But how do we make sure that we record the right things? And how can we correctly interpret the recorded data?
In this multi-disciplinary symposium, speakers from the field of biomechanics, computer animation, human computer interaction and behavior science come together to discus their methods to both record motion and to extract useful properties from the data. In these fields, the construction of human movement models from motion capture data is the focal point, although the application of such models differs per field. Such models can be used to generate and evaluate highly adaptable and believable animation on virtual characters in computer animation, to explore the details of gesture interaction in Human Computer Interaction applications, to identify patterns related to affective states or to find biomechanical properties of human movement.

Goals to be achieved

• Foster cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange on methods to construct motion models from motion capture data
  

• Discus and experience (by an industry demo) the state of the art of motion capture systems
  

• Give a broad overview of the applications of motion capture
  

• Improve the participants knowledge and skills of the technological issues that are nherently related to motion capture
  

Topics
The topics covered in the talks are related to the stages and applications of measuring behavior by motion capture technology, such as:

• Smoothing and cleaning the data, e.g. to eliminate noise, to correct for lost markers etc., without loosing valuable details or modifying the empirical data otherwise
  

• Automated segmentation human motion sequences into gesture units and the recognition of gestures
  

• Deriving biomechanical and physical characteristics of the person based on analysis of his (dedicated) motion samples
  

• Deriving motion behavioral characteristics (like smoothness, velocity profiles)
  

• Deriving both the cognitive and the emotional state characteristics through motion analysis
  

• Creating a motion model based on captured samples
  

• Evaluation of the believability of animation generated my a motion model by comparing it with similar captured motion
  

• Learning motion sequences automatically
  

• Exploring the effect of prosthesis and other artificial items
  

Program

• 09:30 Introduction
  Zsofia Ruttkay (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
  

• 09:40 6 DOF Motion Analysis Using Inertial Sensors
  Daniel Roetenberg, Henk Luinge, and Per Slycke (Xsens Technologies B.V., Enschede, The Netherlands) Presenting author: Per Slycke
  

• 10:00 Hip compression force estimation with a comprehensive musculo-skeletal model
  H.F.J.M. Koopman¹ and M.D. Klein Horsman¹,² (¹University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands; ²University of Calgary, Canada)
  

• 10:20 Ambulatory estimation of ankle and foot dynamics and center of mass movement
  H. Martin Schepers¹, Bart F.J.M Koopman¹, Edwin H.F. van Asseldonk¹, Jaap H. Buurke² and Peter H. Veltink1 (¹University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; ²Roessingh Research and Development, Enschede, The Netherlands)
  

• 10:50 Coffee break
  

• 11:30 4 years of FreeMotion: towards practical large scale application of ambulatory 3D analysis of human movement
  Chris T.M. Baten (Roessingh Research and Development, Enschede, The Netherlands)
  

• 11:50 Analysis of human navigation and manipulation motions
  A. Egges (Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands)
  

• 12:10 Combining manipulation and navigation in virtual environments
  B.J.H. van Basten (Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  

• 12:30 Lunch break
  

• 14:30 Using motion capture data to generate and evaluate motion models for real- time computer animation
  H. van Welbergen (University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands)
  

• 14:50 Using motion capture to recognize affective states in humans
  Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (University College London, London, UK)
  

• 15:10 Online Segmentation of Continuous Gesturing in Interfaces
  F.W. Fikkert, P.E. van der Vet, and A. Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
  

• 15:30 The influence of gender stereotype priming on social action
  E. Ngubia Kuria1¹, Luisa Sartori², Castiello Umberto², Raffaella I. Rumiati1 (¹Cognitive Neuroscience Sector SISSA, Trieste, Italy and Dept. of General Psychology; ²University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
  

• 15:50 Discussion and demonstrations
  

• 16:30 End of session

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