Apply for a Pilot Project Grant of Up to $30,000

 

Application Deadline: October 4, 2023

 

The Restore Center seeks proposals for their pilot project program. The program awards seed grants to innovative and meritorious projects that will accelerate the use of sensor and video technology in rehabilitation research and will advance real-world monitoring and delivery of medical rehabilitation for individuals with impaired movement. Projects of particular interest are those that use or extend tools that are supported and disseminated by the Restore Center, such as OpenCap, OpenSense, and Sit2Stand. Applicants can request up to $30,000 in funding. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, as well as individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. Learn more and apply

 

Apply to Participate in Virtual Office Hours for Biomechanical Modeling or Machine Learning Research Questions 

 

Application Deadline: August 25, 2023, 5 PM local time 

Office Hour Dates: September 11-15, 2023 

 

The Mobilize and Restore centers are pleased to announce they will be holding Virtual Office Hours September 11-15, 2023 to support researchers working with wearable sensors, video technology, and other modalities in rehabilitation research. There will be three tracks: 1) OpenCap or other video-based analysis of movement, 2) OpenSim or other questions about biomechanical modeling, including via IMUs, and 3) machine learning with time series or other movement/rehab data. All phases of a research project are supported, such as formulating a research question, choosing and planning appropriate methods, and addressing issues with carrying out the study. They welcome and encourage individuals to apply as a team, if relevant. Learn more and apply

 

Learn from Centers’ Software Team at Upcoming Conferences 

  

Receive guidance from the Restore and Mobilize Centers' software team in upcoming conference office hours and workshops focused on OpenCap (software for measuring human movement using smartphone videos), AddBiomechanics (cloud-based software for computing inverse kinematics and dynamics from marker-based motion capture data), and Sit2Stand (software for analyzing the sit-to-stand test using a single smartphone video).  

International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) conference
Fukuoka, Japan
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Access Resources from Webinar on Computing Sit-To-Stand Biomechanics Using a Mobile Phone

 

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our joint Mobilize/Restore Center webinar featuring Melissa Boswell from Stanford University. She presented an overview of sit2stand.ai, a freely available web application to capture and automatically analyze self-collected at-home videos of the five-repetition sit-to-stand test. Dr. Boswell reviewed the findings of a nationwide at-home biomechanics study using Sit2Stand and also guided participants through a tutorial for implementing their processing and analysis pipelines. Watch research presentation | Watch tutorial | Read publication | Access processing and analysis codes 

 

Dataset Available: Muscle Mechanics and Energetics of Hopping


Luke Jessup and Glen Lichtwark from the University of Queensland have made available a dataset of 8 participants performing 19 hopping trials at different height constraints and frequencies. The dataset includes the OpenSim model used as well as motion capture (marker and force), fascicle length, electromyography, and indirect calorimetry data from their recent preprint (Jessup et al., 2023). The Restore Center encourages and supports researchers in making their study data accessible. Download the data | Learn More