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  Paper Type: Poster
  Title: Creating Lessons for Scientific Reasoning from Professional Human Motion Data
  Meeting: 129th AAPT National Meeting: Sacramento, CA
  Location: Union Ballroom II & III
  Date: Monday, Aug. 2
  Time: 9:00AM
  Author: Robert Fuller, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln
402-472-2790, rfuller2@unl.edu
  Co-Author(s): P. Peter Urone, Christopher D. Wentworth, Mark Plano Clark
  Abstract: The state-of-the-art Richard W. and Jacqueline B. Chapin Gait and Motion Lab, Madonna Rehabilitation Center, in Lincoln, NE was used to collect data on the scripted motions of male and female subjects. Force components from the force plates in the floor and position coordinates for each of the 25 locations on their bodies were recorded 60 times per second. These data are now available from our project website at http://www.doane.edu/hpp. A variety of the different student assignments that can be developed from these data will be demonstrated. The goal of these assignments is to encourage the development of scientific reasoning by our students.
  Footnotes: None

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