Tripping people for science! Congrats to Shane & Maura on their new publication!
This study published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering & Rehabilitation details a new stumble perturbation system that can trip people at precise moments in stride cycle, enabling us to learn more about human reflexes & how people recover their balance, so we can build similar reflexes into robotic prostheses to reduce falls & injuries in this population. Shane King and Maura Eveld are co-first authors on the paper.
Popular press resulting from this publication:
Tripping grad students over and over for science (and better prosthetic limbs)
This work also garnered a lot of interest on Twitter:
A new stumble perturbation system that can trip people at precise moments in stride cycle, enabling us to learn more about human reflexes & how people recover their balance, so we can build similar reflexes into robotic prostheses to reduce falls & injuries in this population 1/3 pic.twitter.com/FwCHsIdkgT
— Karl Zelik (@KarlZelik) June 12, 2019
Full article:
https://jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12984-019-0527-7