MyoVibe
Abstract
Incorrect muscle activation can lead to sub-optimal performance, muscle imbalance, and eventually bodily injury. Consequently, assessing muscle activation is important for both excelling in exercise, athletics, and professional sports in general. Existing techniques for assessing muscle activation, such as electromyography, are invasive, requiring needles inserted directly into the muscle or electrodes that have considerable placement requirements (shaving, gels, etc.). This makes them unsuitable for active environments. In addition, factors such as body motion noise that results from the high-impact movements encountered in active sports environments easily corrupt sensor data. This compounds the unsuitability of these systems in the sports and exercise arena. As a result, such systems have been explored mostly in clinical rather than sports-based scenarios.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Feb 28, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1145/3149127
Entities
People
- Frank Mokaya
- Hae Young Noh
- Pei Zhang
- Roland Lucas
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- National Science Foundation