Development of new biomechanical feedback tools for improving human motor skill learning and training

我们有兴趣开发新的工具来理解人类的基本过程和调节各种人类运动，从日常活动到专门的运动和音乐技能。我们的最终目标是利用这些技术和知识来改善我们的运动方式。学习如何移动是一项具有挑战性的任务。即使是最基本的走路技能也需要多年的发展，并且会随着年龄的增长和久坐的生活方式而迅速退化。与年龄有关的跌倒是75岁及以上老年人意外死亡的70%原因，也是老年人住院的主要原因（74%）。更专业的技能，如拉小提琴和踢足球，需要“天赋”和多年的广泛练习才能完全掌握。这些做法如果操作不当，很容易导致终止职业生涯的职业病。我们的研究小组使用生物力学科学和最先进的运动分析技术来确定哪些肌肉运动对成功的技能发展至关重要，哪些运动使我们容易患上职业疾病。通过这种方式，我们能够解开有才华的音乐家和运动员的一些秘密，科学地为音乐教学和体育教练提供信息，同时防止职业病的发生。这个特别的提议旨在开发新的生物力学工具，以提供关于我们如何运动的实时反馈。正如心脏监测器使我们能够研究和治疗心脏病一样，这些生物力学反馈工具也需要用于理解和改进各种人类运动技能的训练。这项工作的一个元主题是知识转移。拟议的发展建立在PI在生物力学、人体工程学、运动学习和人类表演补偿行为领域的成果之上，因此，拟议的项目将研究人员、教育工作者和实践者联系起来，共同改善我们整个社会的身体和艺术学习。

We are interested in developing new tools for understanding of fundamental processes in humans and modulating various human movements, ranging from daily activities to specialized sport and music skills. Our ultimate goal is to use such technology and knowledge to improve how we move.Learning how to move is a challenging task. Even the most basic skill of walking requires years to develop and can quickly deteriorate with age and sedentary lifestyles. Age-related falls are the cause of 70% of accidental deaths in people 75 years and older and is the leading (74%) cause of hospitalization for seniors. More specialized skills such as violin playing and soccer kicking require "talent" and years of extensive practice to fully master. These practices can easily cause career-ending vocational diseases if conducted improperly. Our research group uses the science of biomechanics and state-of-the-art motion analysis technologies to determine which muscle movements are critical for successful skill development and which expose us to vocational disease development. In this fashion, we are able to unlock some of the secrets of talented musicians and athletes and scientifically inform music pedagogy and sports coaching, while preventing the occupational disease to occur.This particular proposal aims to develop new biomechanical tools to provide real-time feedback on how well we move. Just as heart monitors allow us to study and treat heart conditions, these biomechanical feedback tools are needed to understand and improve the training of various human motor skills. A meta-theme of the work is knowledge transfer. The proposed developments build upon the PI’s results in the fields of biomechanics, ergonomics, motor learning, and compensatory behavior of human performances and, as such, the proposed projects connect researchers, educators and practitioners to collectively improve the physical and artistic learning of our society as a whole.