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SUBMITTER: Slowinski P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4843673 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Słowiński Piotr P Zhai Chao C Alderisio Francesco F Salesse Robin R Gueugnon Mathieu M Marin Ludovic L Bardy Benoit G BG di Bernardo Mario M Tsaneva-Atanasova Krasimira K
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20160301 116
Human movement has been studied for decades, and dynamic laws of motion that are common to all humans have been derived. Yet, every individual moves differently from everyone else (faster/slower, harder/smoother, etc.). We propose here an index of such variability, namely an individual motor signature (IMS) able to capture the subtle differences in the way each of us moves. We show that the IMS of a person is time-invariant and that it significantly differs from those of other individuals. This ...[more]