Evidence of work:
For this project my group and I measured walking gaits and the unique manners in which people walk and run. By measuring body dimensions of each test subject and testing the g force surrounding their individual walking gaits, we hypothesize that the different dimensions of each subjects body effect the total g force of their walking gait. We had to collect data from our own group members and other peers in our class. With this data that we collected, we had to separate what corresponded with each other and the data that were outliers. My group and I had to attach a phone too different parts of our body and walk a certain distance. The app on our phone would pick up the different types of gaits that we had to measure to collect our data. The app was called an accelerometer, it could be used to measure the acceleration of the subject during the trials. It could also be used to measure the acceleration of different parts of the body during the trials.
During our trials we attempted to find a correlation between the body dimensions of the test subjects and the total g-force that resulted from their walking gaits. Many factors limited us from being able to do this. First we ran into the problem of switching between group members as test subjects because we had movement between the group and the plane mentors group during our experiment. Another reason that we were not able to find a correlation between these two things was that there were too many variations in the body dimensions of each subject. It turned out to be true that on subject could have longer legs than another, but at the same time have shorter arms. These variations skewed the data that was needed for us to prove or disprove our hypothesis. We did however find that there was a correlation between the speed at which the subject walked and the peak g-force as a result of the walking gait.
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For this project my group and I measured walking gaits and the unique manners in which people walk and run. By measuring body dimensions of each test subject and testing the g force surrounding their individual walking gaits, we hypothesize that the different dimensions of each subjects body effect the total g force of their walking gait. We had to collect data from our own group members and other peers in our class. With this data that we collected, we had to separate what corresponded with each other and the data that were outliers. My group and I had to attach a phone too different parts of our body and walk a certain distance. The app on our phone would pick up the different types of gaits that we had to measure to collect our data. The app was called an accelerometer, it could be used to measure the acceleration of the subject during the trials. It could also be used to measure the acceleration of different parts of the body during the trials.
During our trials we attempted to find a correlation between the body dimensions of the test subjects and the total g-force that resulted from their walking gaits. Many factors limited us from being able to do this. First we ran into the problem of switching between group members as test subjects because we had movement between the group and the plane mentors group during our experiment. Another reason that we were not able to find a correlation between these two things was that there were too many variations in the body dimensions of each subject. It turned out to be true that on subject could have longer legs than another, but at the same time have shorter arms. These variations skewed the data that was needed for us to prove or disprove our hypothesis. We did however find that there was a correlation between the speed at which the subject walked and the peak g-force as a result of the walking gait.
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Reflection:
I think that our project went very well and we accomplished everything that we were assigned with very little problems. One peak for this project was collaboration, even though I was working with a couple of my friends, I thought that we all collaborated very well together. When we ran into a problem such as creating the graphs, it was very easy for our group to figure out a solution and all worked together on it. Another peak for this project was learning about gaits, I was very unclear on this concept when it was first brought up, but after working on this project I gained a full understanding on how they are measured and work.
There were a couple of Pitts that came along with this project. One of the Pitts was time management, my group and I had assigned everything to one another to make sure we were all pulling our own weight. However some of the things were left out and at the end, we were scrambling to finish a couple key components to our project. Time management was not executed well in our group throughout this project. Another Pitt for this project was lack of data for our presentation. My group and I did not put a sufficient amount of data on our presentation due to lack of time. If more time was added, this would have not been a problem and we would have further completed our work. All in all I think that our project turned out pretty well with very few problems.