We are happy to share our latest research findings on Opencap, a smartphone- and web-based markerless motion capture system.This study delves into the intersession repeatability of OpenCap and the effects of clothing on gait kinematics. While there has been quite a lot of research on concurrent validity of 3D markerless systems, research on reliability for […]
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Last week, our research group attended the Conference of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports. PhD student Alex Pürzel together with Assoc. Prof. Hans Kainz hosted a two-hour applied science session on powerlifting biomechanics, which was a great success. Additionally, Alex presented his latest research on powerlifting in the Young Investigator Award Session. Link […]
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The 29th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics in the wonderful city of Edinburgh was a fantastic experience. Members of the neuromechanics research group delivered three oral presentations, engaged in fruitful discussions with peers, and enjoyed a great social program. The icing on the cake was Willi Koller, a PhD student of the group, […]
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As a result of winning the ESMAC Best Paper Award 2023, Willi Koller and his co-authors were asked to submit a full paper on this study which has just been published open access in Gait & Posture. In this study, we evaluated the stresses within the distal growth plate in participants with cerebral palsy (CP) […]
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Muscle synergy analyses are used to enhance our understanding of how the central nervous system controls movement. In the new paper by Paul Kaufmann, Lorenz Zweier, Arnold Baca and Hans Kainz, the motor control of three skateboard tricks was investigated as representatives of highly complex human movements. The results showed that some, but not all, […]
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At the 29th annual congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, which will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the 30th of June to the 3rd of July 2024, Willi Koller is nominated as a finalist for the ESB Student Award. Among three other students, he will hold a presentation during a special session about femoral bone growth predictions with multi-scale […]
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Dr. Hans Kainz, alongside esteemed colleagues Dr. Antoine Falisse from Stanford University (USA) and Dr. Claudio Pizzolato from Griffith University (Australia), collaborated on an insightful opinion paper exploring neuromusculoskeletal modelilng in health and disease. This paper provides a brief overview of the latest advancements in the field, while also pinpointing promising avenues for future research. […]
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The mission of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) is to understand the mechanisms by which the central nervous system controls movement. The 33rdannual meeting of the Society was held this year from April 16thto 19thin Dubrovnik, Croatia. Hans Kainz and Paul Kaufmann attended the meeting and presented their work in two […]
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Together with Dr Mike Schwartz, Dr Andrew Ries and Dr Andrew Georgiadis from the University of Minnesota (USA), Dr Hans Kainz used an innovative machine learning approach to investigate how 3D gait analysis data improves clinical decision making in children with cerebral palsy. The paper was recently published in PLOS ONE and is open access. […]
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Our department hosted the National Biomechanics Day on April 4th. The National Biomechanics Day is a worldwide celebration of biomechanics for high school students and teachers. It was initiated by Dr. Paul De Vita in 2017 and has since been celebrated in 45 nations. In Austria, Dr. Hans Kainz and his research group initiated the […]
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