CALCULATING THE CENTERS OF MASS RMS ERROR OF BODY SEGMENTS OBTAINED THROUGH KINECT™ FOR WINDOWS™

Resumo

Due to the importance of both developing and validating new low cost analysis, diagnosis and intervention devices for several areas, since rehabilitation until high performance training environments. The objective of this study is to determine the value for RMS error of the CM of body segments. Methods: anthropometric data were collected from a volunteer standing still in orthostatic position. Using Kinect™ for Microsoft™, the X, Y and Z coordinates were acquired. From there on, values of reference and values calculated by the device were taken into consideration. Results: the values calculated by the device demonstrated to be consisting through the different moments over data collects as well as
RMS error values were satisfactory due to their low percentage, subsidizing favorably the usage of such device as a tool for analysis, diagnosis and intervention over several health care areas, such as physical education, physiotherapy and medicine among others.