Stanford Software That Models Human Motion Travels to Museum
From: Stanford Report - 10/27/2011
By: Andrew Myers 

Stanford University professor Scott Delp has developed OpenSim, software that
helps medical professionals and bioengineers study, diagnose, and correct
abnormalities in how people move. The OpenSim system is currently on display
at the Leonardo museum in Salt Lake City as part of an exhibit exploring
human movement. The exhibit is divided into two sections. In one section,
visitors walk across a pressure-sensitive floor and are presented at the
other side with color-coded printouts of their weight distribution, showing
imbalances that could be putting stress on certain limbs or joints. The
second section is an interactive soccer game in which the real-world player
adjusts the strength of two leg muscles on the simulated soccer player to
generate enough force to score a goal. The researchers hope that OpenSim
helps develop new, more sensitive prosthetics that can read and interpret
electrical impulses to control the devices. "By putting this powerful
software in the hands of as many people as possible, we are setting in motion
a self-perpetuating research ecosystem that will build upon itself to push
the field forward," Delp says. 

Read the entire article at:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/opensim-motion-software-102711.html

Links:
Scott Delp
http://nmbl.stanford.edu/people/Scott_Delp.htm
http://biox.stanford.edu/clark/delp.html
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/faculty/Scott_Delp/

OpenSim (with video)
http://opensim.stanford.edu/