Measuring, Analyzing, and Visualizing Human Motions

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Human motion science has been tremendously popularized with the development of digital motion capture techniques and the popularization of machine learning. Apps that monitor activity, athletes performances' quantification, rehabilitation monitoring are some examples of these developments. However this popularization is not equal to the democratization of these technologies in the clinical field. In this presentation I would like to survey some of the development we have made to contribute to the democratization of motion science from the measurement to the visualization, to support diagnostic and home rehabilitation.

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Gentiane Venture is a professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokyo and a cross appointed fellow with AIST. She obtained her MSc and PhD from Ecole Centrale/University of Nantes in 2000 and 2003 respectively. She worked at CEA in 2004, from 2004 to 2009 she was with the Department of Mechano-Informatics at the University of Tokyo. In 2009 she started with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology where she has established the GVLab an international research group working on human science and robotics, before moving to her present affiliation in 2022. With her group she conducts theoretical and applied research on motion dynamics, robot control and non-verbal communication to study the meaning of living with robots. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, collaborating with therapists, psychologists, neuroscientists, sociologists, philosophers, ergonomists, artists and designers.