Introduction As motion tracking systems continue to evolve, so too do the complexities involved in setting up hardware for research labs that study human movement. Recent informal polling of both current and prospective clients revealed a growing ...
Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity in Research Labs
Introduction Launching a new motion capture research lab is a significant undertaking, with numerous costs and considerations. While we’ve detailed a comprehensive breakdown of these expenses in the appendix, we want to highlight how ou ...
Establishing Excellence: A Mission-driven Strategy for University Departments
Introduction In recent years, I sense the approach to building a department’s reputation is evolving. Increasingly, department leaders responsible for motion capture research labs are adopting a mission-driven strategy, emphasizing a clear purpos ...
Data Reduction & Outlier Checks: Save Time & Money…
Introduction While the design of The MotionMonitor xGen has focused on reducing the cost and time required to run a motion capture research lab, there is one feature that has far and away the biggest impact. It is Data Reduction and the abi ...
Addressing the Unique Challenges of University Research Labs
Introduction As the person responsible for product quality and client support at The MotionMonitor xGen, I frequently hear concerns from prospective clients that fall into two distinct categories. On one side, there are large departments at major ...
What Technology Do I Start With For My Player Performance Program? Force Plates!
Introduction Since the early 1990’s there have been significant advances in hardware to track and measure human motion. Cameras, electro-magnetic trackers, and inertial measurement units to track the position and orientation of the body; EMG ...
COVID-19 and Equipment Cleaning
How has COVID-19 Complicated Data Collection? Data collection has gotten much more complicated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping subject and researcher safe means following guidelines introduced by research institutions regarding the inte ...
Biofeedback & Real-Time Motion Capture
Biofeedback – What are the possibilities? With the release of The MotionMonitor xGen, our inaugural blog shared some of the things you have been telling us regarding the state of motion capture software. Biofeedback and its use to understand ...
Real-Time Motion Capture in Biomechanics
Real Time Data Collection – What is it & Why Does it Matter? In March, our inaugural blog identified concepts that our clients had highlighted as important features of motion capture systems. One of the most important was real time data ...
The Next Generation of Biomechanics Software
In our inaugural blog I thought it would be worthwhile to share some of the things you have been telling us regarding the state of motion capture. During the 24 years that we have been providing software solutions to the research community you ...