Kinetic Analytics is a project that makes use of the kinect's skeleton tracking system in order to calculate the energy expediture and record the movement of the user over time. The application has a whole host of features, described below:
- The ability to adjust energy expenditure based on user height
- Automatic data post processing to account for situations where the kinect loses track of joints for a period of time.
- A playback feature that plays back the post processed data
- Data outputted in several different formats, for use in excel, direct kinect playback, and as raw, unformatted data
The playbacktest directory holds all the files required to take a kinect playback file generated by our app and output it as a video that plays at 30 frames per second. Kinetic-Playback is a light tool that allows for the interpretation of data without a user having to resort to using another piece of software, such as matlab, for data visualization.
Outputmod's features and files represent the core utility of the application, which is to collect, process, and output data about a user's position, movements, and calorie expenditure over the duration of a recording. The range of uses for this are wide, and could have many applications in the medical field as a cheap and convient alternative to using motion capture to gather data about patient gait and motion analysis.