Purpose. The aim of this study was to determine: whether and at what stage of education is proper body posture learned, the intention of young adults to participate in activities teaching proper posture, and the effects of factors related with the said intention. Methods. The study involved 430 university students aged 18–24 years. Anthropometric data was collected. Participants completed quest...

Flies have a distinct body posture during walking and flight. Hence head and eyes have mostly a preferred alignment with the surroundings. Voluntary and involuntary changes of body orientation elicit compensatory head turns which stabilize the original, correct orientation of the eyes relative to the surroundings. Compensatory head turns are elicited by several sensory cues which simultaneously...

Passive keeping the vertical layout is impossible because of the osteoarticular system construction, a high position of COG and the small support area. The correct layout is maintained automatically and is always introduced into the pattern encoded in the CNS. In posture regulation short back muscles play a special role. At early development of scoliosis CNS automatically corrects irregularitie...

This paper proposes a method in which the body surface is reconstructed from a point cloud (set of points) on the human body acquired by a device such as a laser range finder. The method constructs the surface appropriately for the human body by clustering the point cloud at body sections such as the chest and the upper arm. The clustering is performed as follows. A simple human model composed ...

This paper presents a human posture recognition method from a single image. We rst segment an image into homogeneous regions and extract curve segments corresponding to human body parts. Each body part is considered as a 2D ribbon. From the smooth curve segments in skin regions, 2D ribbons are extracted and a human body model is constructed. We assign a predeened posture type to the image accor...

Prior research suggested that pride is recognized only when a head and facial expression (e.g., tilted head with a slight smile) is combined with a postural expression (e.g., expanded body and arm gestures). However, these studies used static photographs. In the present research, participants labeled the emotion conveyed by four dynamic cues to pride, presented as video clips: head and face alo...

This paper proposes a novel method of estimating 3-D hand posture from images observed in complex backgrounds. Conventional methods often cause mistakes by mis-matches of local image features. Our method considers possibility of the mis-match between each posture model appearance and the other model appearances in a Baysian stochastic estimation form by introducing a novel likelihood concept “M...

We assessed potential facilitation of congruent body posture on access to and retention of autobiographical memories in younger and older adults. Response times were shorter when body positions during prompted retrieval of autobiographical events were similar to the body positions in the original events than when body position was incongruent. Free recall of the autobiographical events two week...

Poor posture can result in loss of physical function, which is necessary to preserving independence in later life. Its decline is often the determining factor for loss of independence in the elderly. To avoid this, a system to correct poor posture in the elderly, designed for Kinect-based indoor applications, is proposed in this paper. Due to the importance of maintaining a healthy life style i...