{"id":1263,"date":"2019-12-06T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bxmc.poly.edu\/~moeezosaleem\/IDMTest\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:28:21","slug":"week-5-special-guest-mocap-for-parkinson-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/week-5-special-guest-mocap-for-parkinson-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 Special Guest: MoCap for Parkinson Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, we invited a special guest &#8212; Russell. It was such a meaningful experience for us to learn about how can we apply motion capture technology into helping people with special mobility need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.bxmc.poly.edu\/~moeezosaleem\/IDMTest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Pic.jpg 800w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Pic-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Pic-439x328.jpg 439w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Pic-467x348.jpg 467w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Pic-512x382.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><em>Illustration: Ratna Sagar Shrestha\/THT<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Our Guest:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Mickey\u2019s, we\u2019re building products that can help movement disorders patients walk more efficiently. Our first product in development is a pair of compression shorts with sensors and actuators built into each leg of the garment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By monitoring the user\u2019s gait and delivering a vibrotactile pulse at regular intervals during the user\u2019s stride, our product provides an external cue that affords increased mobility to Parkinson\u2019s disease patients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"583\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.bxmc.poly.edu\/~moeezosaleem\/IDMTest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Featured.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Featured.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Featured-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Featured-439x213.jpg 439w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Featured-467x227.jpg 467w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Featured-800x389.jpg 800w, https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/MoCapClub_Week5_Featured-512x249.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we invited a special guest &#8212; Russell. It was such a meaningful experience for us to learn about how can we apply motion capture technology into helping people with special mobility need. About Our Guest: At Mickey\u2019s, we\u2019re building products that can help movement disorders patients walk more efficiently. Our first product in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}