Generalizing Stepping Concepts To Non-Straight Walking.

ABSTRACT: People rarely walk in straight lines. Instead, we make frequent turns or other maneuvers. Spatiotemporal parameters fundamentally characterize gait. For straight walking, these parameters are well-defined for that task of walking on a straight path . Generalizing these concepts to non -straight walking, however, is not straightforward. People also follow non-straight paths imposed by their environment (store aisle, sidewalk, etc.) or choose readily-predictable, stereotypical paths of their own. People actively maintain lateral position to stay on their path and readily adapt their stepping when their path changes. We therefore propose a conceptually coherent convention that defines step lengths and widths relative to known walking paths. Our convention simply re-aligns lab-ba

SUBMITTER: Dingwell JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10245567 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature