A Visual Analysis Approach to Static Postural Control Acquired by a Force Plate

Thales Uê, Danilo Eler, Iracimara Messias

2024

Abstract

Force plates are biomechanical equipment responsible for providing data to understand the mechanics of human movement. However, mathematical software used to process data are a barrier to researchers without much experience and prior knowledge on areas from Exact Sciences and Information Technology. This paper aims to implement a visual approach to analyze human static postural control obtained from a force plate as a means of helping researchers interpret its data. By measuring ground reaction forces and their respective torque moments, the displacements of the Center of Pressure in its medial‑lateral and anterior-posterior directions are calculated to observe and evaluate the postural balance’s behavior. Data processing and visualization were implemented using Python programming language. Scatter plots, heat maps, violin plots, and box plots were used as graphic representations for data collected before and after muscular intervention in older adults with sarcopenia. Applying the developed approach makes it possible to visually observe each of the Center of Pressure’s oscillation values measured for data collection and how they relate. This fact differs from statistical information, which summarizes the sample’s data in a quantified value. Therefore, data visualization is essential to complement the statistical data and provide another view to force plate data.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Uê T., Eler D. and Messias I. (2024). A Visual Analysis Approach to Static Postural Control Acquired by a Force Plate. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 628-635. DOI: 10.5220/0012599700003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Thales Uê and Danilo Eler and Iracimara Messias},
title={A Visual Analysis Approach to Static Postural Control Acquired by a Force Plate},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={628-635},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012599700003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS
TI - A Visual Analysis Approach to Static Postural Control Acquired by a Force Plate
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Uê T.
AU - Eler D.
AU - Messias I.
PY - 2024
SP - 628
EP - 635
DO - 10.5220/0012599700003690
PB - SciTePress