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About the fourMs Lab

Most of the motion capture studies at RITMO are conducted in the ​fourMs lab, a world-class research infrastructure for studies of human body movement and physiology in an immersive multimedia …

Kinematics and Kinetics

As we saw in a previous step, biomechanics can be broken into two parts: kinematics and kinetics. Here we will look at some of the principles of both. Kinematics Kinematics …

Biomechanical terminology

Mechanics is the area of physics concerned with the motion of physical objects. Biomechanics is the application of mechanics to biological systems. Biomechanics aims to explain how and why the …

Introduction to biomechanics

When we try to analyse human movement, we use concepts and tools from biomechanics. In this video, Kayla and Victor introduce some biomechanical topics and illustrate some important concepts for …

Welcome to RITMO

RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion is a Norwegian Centre of Excellence hosted at the University of Oslo. It comprises researchers from the Departments of Musicology, …

The Musculoskeletal System

When studying systemic anatomy, the body can be divided into 11 systems. We will focus on two of them: the skeletal system and the muscular system. The skeletal system is …

Introduction to anatomy

What systems in the human body are relevant to movement? What is the musculoskeletal system, and how does it work? In this video, Kayla and Victor give an overview of …

Quantitative movement analysis

We have previously looked at some strategies for qualitative movement analysis. Now we are turning our attention to quantitative analysis approaches. There are numerous technologies available for capturing human body …

Qualitative movement analysis

In this video, we’ll take a quick look at some types of qualitative movement analysis. Although our main priority in the course is on quantitative methods, it is useful to …

Introduction to human movement analysis

There are many ways of studying the motion of human bodies. Many people often think about “motion capture” as suits with markers or sensors. That is one type of motion …

Introducing the dictionary

The course will cover many topics, and the educators will use a lot of different terms. To simplify your learning experience, we have made a dictionary with definitions of some …

Introduction to the course

Welcome to the RITMO Course on Motion Capture! In this video, Jonna and Alexander discuss some core questions that are at the centre of attention in this course: What is …

Meet the educators

This course’s educators are all working at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo. They have experience with using motion capture in …