Stuck in Traffic
Biomechanics For Everybody - John Rasmussen
by John Rasmussen
1y ago
My passion for science goes to physics in general. I am endlessly fascinated by the ability of physics to let us understand why the world works in such crazy ways and how humans influence it and are influenced by it. Such is also the the case for traffic, where drivers control their individual vehicles in cooperation and sometimes in competition with each other. I am sure you have been stuck in traffic many times, and if you are the inquisitive type, you have probably also wondered why congestion happens out of nowhere? Here’s your explanation, and I hope you will find it interesting, if you d ..read more
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20/20 vision
Biomechanics For Everybody - John Rasmussen
by John Rasmussen
2y ago
They say that hindsight is 20/20 vision; we are always so much smarter when we look back than we were when we tried to navigate forward in a difficult world. My famous compatriot, Søren Kirkegaard, said it better than anybody else: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” The end of the year is usually the time to look back and evaluate a little. A few years ago, I helped starting a research project called AnyBody Inside in cooperation between AnyBody Technology and the research group that I am heading at Aalborg University. The purpose of the project, funded by ..read more
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Natal – coming together
Biomechanics For Everybody - John Rasmussen
by John Rasmussen
2y ago
Biomechanics like every scientific field has its main conferences. The International Society of Biomechanics hosts a biannual congress that attracts around 1000 researchers from literally all over the world, and these conferences are among my absolute favorite events. This July the event was in Natal, Brazil. It had to be Brazil, of course, with its emerging economy, enormous natural resources, great advances in technology and science and wonderful weather. The country has become a megatrend lately. Biomechanics has its megatrends too, and no place is better to catch up with them than the ISB ..read more
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Anybodyrun.com
Biomechanics For Everybody - John Rasmussen
by John Rasmussen
3y ago
A model of yours truly running 20 km/h, which is totally unrealistic. While we have all been in lockdown, my skilled colleagues at AnyBody Technology have worked on an implementation of the statistical running models that I have told you about in previous posts. They have now realized the very vision of this blog: Biomechanics for Everybody. Please go to https://anybodyrun.com/ and try it out for yourself. The whole point of these statistically founded parametric models is that you can make infinitely many virtual running models that are different in all sorts of ways, for instance in terms of ..read more
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Simulating running injuries
Biomechanics For Everybody - John Rasmussen
by John Rasmussen
4y ago
In this post I continue the presentation of our statistical running models from previous posts but focus more on what we might be able to compute that could directly benefit runners and our knowledge about running biomechanics in general. To briefly recapitulate, let me mention that we have developed a parametric running model using machine learning techniques on a relatively large sample of real runners that have been measured with motion capture technology. You can read about these developments as far as movement goes in previous blog posts. The new stuff is that we have now hooked the runni ..read more
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A biomechanics running app
Biomechanics For Everybody - John Rasmussen
by John Rasmussen
4y ago
The running App prototype While previous posts report on the science behind statistical running models, I have been working on the design of a prototype app that will bring the technology to runners in practice, and I thought Halloween would be a good time to post these rattling, running skeletons. There is no shortage of running apps on the market. Mobile phones, running watches and designated gadgets can collect information about runners’ performance, calorie consumption, distance and height meters covered, and runners on all levels have embraced these technologies. So what is new here ..read more
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