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This paper describes a system for measuring the three-dimensional movement of a point on the human body. The core components of the system are an ultrasonic computer mouse (The OWL), an IBM-compatible personal computer, and a suite of recording and analysis software written in National Instruments’ LabVIEW instrumentation programming language. The cost of these components is sufficiently low that we have been able to create a system for measuring human kinematics that is within the reach of a typical budget for student practical classes.
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Haggard, P. A low-cost system for measuring and analyzing human movement in three dimensions. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 30, 399–405 (1998). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200671
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200671