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Two US students have just netted the equivalent of £64,000 ($100,000) between them and a prestigious technology scholarship prize from Siemens for their invention of a device to analyses human walking patterns using an Xbox 360. Always interested in activity at the cusp of emergent technology, we at Technical Translations wanted to find out more.
Siemens invite high school students to compete in a research tournament every year, with maths, science and technology pupils going head to head to come up with the winning project.
The team award for their project, "Using Kinect for Xbox 360 and Computer Vision to Analyse Human Gait." was won by Ziyuan Liu and Cassee Cain from Oak Ridge.
Their 3D-sensing peripheral uses body-tracking algorithms to record how different parts of the leg move when somebody is walking and the resulting information could translate into a breakthrough for medical science, with the potential to allow a doctor to give a very personal treatment to people experiencing a variety of leg injuries or problems.
"When further developed, their system could open avenues to bring personalised rehabilitation to the home. This could potentially reduce medical costs, allowing clinicians to monitor a patient's progress from a remote site," enthused competition judge Sudeep Sarkar, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida.
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