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Welcome to the home page for Dr. Gait III. Take a look at What's New in our web.

Dr. Gait III is a multimedia application providing various gait analysis functions.

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System Description

Data Display
Dr. Gait III uses data directly from the gait analysis laboratory. The data that can be viewed on-line include: medical history, physical exam, time and distance data, joint angle graphs, moment graphs, power graphs, force plate graphs, EMG's, quicktime video, and animated stick figures.
Data Annotation
Each screen of data may be annotated by the use of colored and/or formatted text, colored arrows, highlighted regions of graphs, and audio recordings.
Automatic Annotation
For some items such as joint angle graphs, physical exam and EMGs, the system can automatically annotate the items that are abnormal.
Tutoring
A teacher can annotate any of the several screens of data with visual cues such as highlighted text and colored arrows. For each screen, the teacher also records an audio question, hint and answer. The student then reviews the cases and records his own answer.
Report Generation
Reports may be generated for on-line viewing using the annotation functions described above. In addition, graphs and text can be exported to a word processor where a hardcopy report can be composed and printed.

What's New

The following is a list of recent additions to our web. Whenever we publish a paper, write a specification, submit a status report, or add anything else to our web, we'll put a notice here. Every month we'll remove the oldest items. The most recent changes are listed first, and each item is linked to the page with the updated content.

1/13/99

Web site moved from The Ohio State University to University of Texas at Houston

Example of tutoring functionality

An example case: Case A819

System Requirements

Macintosh

PowerMacintosh computer with at least 16 megs of memory and 50 meg free hard drive space. Each case requires about 20 megs of hard drive space when fully annotated. For printed reports: Microsoft Word 6.0.

PC

Pentium-based PC. Voice annotation not yet available, but report generation is working using Microsoft Word.

Gait Lab data must be in the form of ASCII files. Currently Vicon's gcd format is being used. Video is supported using the Quicktime format. Cases used for report generation only typically take about 8 megs of hard drive space.

Sponsors

National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), United States Department of Education.
United Cerebral Palsy Foundation

Development Team

At University of Texas - Houston
    School of Allied Health Sciences
    Department of Health Informatics

Kathy A. Johnson, PhD
Jack W. Smith, MD PhD

At Beth Israel Hospital in New York

Sheldon R. Simon, MD

At The Ohio State University
    Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory

Philip J. Smith, PhD

Plus

AMT Systems Engineering, Inc., Columbus, OH

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Last updated: June 27, 1999.