Grant: Idea to Innovation

Human movement practitioners have often relied on subjective methods of evaluation to assess their athletes and clients, these methods lack the objectivity and sensitivity to truly optimize performance. Recent advancements in motion capture technology allow for high-quality 3D kinematics to easily be obtained using wearable sensors and cellphone video. Despite this practitioner still rely on subjective methods of evaluation this is because the data analysis framework utilized by these technologies fail to provide information regarding the coordinative patterns that make up movement technique.To this point, practitioners have been reaching for tools to help objectively diagnose movement problems with little success. Recently, we have created the first data-driven coaching tool to provide practitioners with real-time objective feedback. Our product exists at the cross-section of two sectors, the Sports Analytics sector, and the Fitness tracking sector. The Sports Analytics market is worth approximately $889.4 M and is expected to grow 21.3% from 2021 to 2028. The Fitness Tracking industry is worth $4.3 billion USD and is expected to grow 15.4% between 2021 to 2028. Suggesting that the need for objective tracking of human movement is much needed and can be leveraged as an impactful tool to optimize sport performance and health/fitness.Our product uses novel wearable sensors, and computer vision algorithms to collect high-quality 3D kinematics using low-cost equipment such as a cell phone.We then take the data obtained from these sources and implement them into our custom algorithm to provide real-time feedback to practitioners. The data can then be stored and used to create an individualized movement report that can be used to track and communicate changes to an individual's movement pattern over time.