This project was all about analyzing gait. Gait is a person's manner of walking. Our driving goal for this project was to find a way that gait can be analyzed to show a specific feature of someone or to identify someone. My group consisted of myself, James Martinez, Carina Masters, and Andre Ng. We collected data on the frequency, velocity, and acceleration of each person's walk in our group. We did this by using an iPhone 8 Plus with the “Physics Toolbox Accelerometer” app. We strapped this to our legs and walked in a straight line for 10 meters while the device collected our data. After doing this, we analyzed the data and came up with a way that gait can be used to show a feature of someone. The feature that we found was height. We found that the frequency of one's steps correlates to their height. We came up with an equation to model this in that y= 20x^8 + 150. In this equation, the "y" is the person's height in centimeters, the "x" is the frequency of the steps. More details and explanation are below.
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Content:
Gait: a person's manner of walking.
Accelerometer: an instrument for measuring acceleration
Frequency: the rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample
Wavelength: the distance between successive crests of a wave, especially points in a sound wave or electromagnetic wave.
Trough: the minimum or lowest point in a cycle.
Crest: the maximum or highest point in a cycle.
G-force: A force acting on a body as a result of acceleration or gravity
Predictive Modeling: a process that uses data mining and probability to forecast outcomes.
Gait: a person's manner of walking.
Accelerometer: an instrument for measuring acceleration
Frequency: the rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample
Wavelength: the distance between successive crests of a wave, especially points in a sound wave or electromagnetic wave.
Trough: the minimum or lowest point in a cycle.
Crest: the maximum or highest point in a cycle.
G-force: A force acting on a body as a result of acceleration or gravity
Predictive Modeling: a process that uses data mining and probability to forecast outcomes.
Reflection:
Two Peaks: 1) Our group worked well together. We all communicated well and worked hard to make a good project.
2) We had experience in working with the data in google sheets, making our analysis of the data easy.
Two Pits: 1) We had hardly any time in class to do this project. For the first half of the project work time, we were all busy with completing tasks for our capstone project and planned on doing the work in the second half. However, we didn't get any time in the second half as the whole class was working on making OP-51s.
2) With the lack of time, we weren't able to work on our report all together. Instead, we had to do it at home, making it difficult to communicate and work together efficiently, but we managed it.
Two Things I Learned: 1) I learned what gait is. I had never even heard of the word gait and hadn't thought of how someone walks could help identify someone.
2) I learned that our group needed to manage our time better because we planned on having more time than we were given.
Two Things I Could Have Done Better:
1) I could have helped our group work faster by encouraging them to work on this project rather than their capstone projects.
2) I could have encouraged our group to test more people for our data, as only using 4 people didn't give us a wide range of data to analyze.
Two Peaks: 1) Our group worked well together. We all communicated well and worked hard to make a good project.
2) We had experience in working with the data in google sheets, making our analysis of the data easy.
Two Pits: 1) We had hardly any time in class to do this project. For the first half of the project work time, we were all busy with completing tasks for our capstone project and planned on doing the work in the second half. However, we didn't get any time in the second half as the whole class was working on making OP-51s.
2) With the lack of time, we weren't able to work on our report all together. Instead, we had to do it at home, making it difficult to communicate and work together efficiently, but we managed it.
Two Things I Learned: 1) I learned what gait is. I had never even heard of the word gait and hadn't thought of how someone walks could help identify someone.
2) I learned that our group needed to manage our time better because we planned on having more time than we were given.
Two Things I Could Have Done Better:
1) I could have helped our group work faster by encouraging them to work on this project rather than their capstone projects.
2) I could have encouraged our group to test more people for our data, as only using 4 people didn't give us a wide range of data to analyze.