Could Hollywood Technology Help Your Health?
From: Wireless Design - 05/20/2016

The same technology used by the entertainment industry to animate characters
such as Gollum in The Lord of The Rings films, will be used to help train
elite athletes, for medical diagnosis and even to help improve prosthetic
limb development, in a new research centre at the University of Bath launched
Friday, May 20th.

Motion capture technology was first developed by the biomechanics field to
help train elite athletes by studying their gait and movement and was later
applied by the entertainment industry to make computer animation in films and
games more realistic.

The new Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research &
Applications (CAMERA) now plans to take the technology full circle in
applying it to training elite athletes to rehabilitating injured service
personnel.

The technology can be used to track and analyse a person's gait. This can be
used to enhance the performance of elite athletes and help develop assistive
technologies such as designing better fitting prosthetic limbs.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2016/05/could-hollywood-technology-help-your-health
http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/news/2016/05/20/camera-launch

Links:
Gaming technology could help amputees learn to walk again (with video 2:57)
http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2015/07/14/centre-analysis-motion-entertainment-research-applications
http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/news/2015/07/10/centre-analysis-motion-entertainment-research-applications

DisAbility Sport & Health (DASH)
http://www.bath.ac.uk/health/research/sport-health-exercise-science/disability-sport-health