Abstract Summary
Ballroom dancing is a popular global activity, with interested participants spanning decades. The goals of this preliminary study are to evaluate two biomechanical assessment tools, pressure sensing insoles and inertial markers, or combining both tools to facilitate the collection of objective, quantitative data to benefit coaches and dance students. Also, to investigate whether there are patterns within the data to facilitate more effective feedback to students learning ballroom dance. The preliminary assessment demonstrated different FFT results between experienced and novice dancers for both pressure measurements and inertial motion capture data. Since dance includes movement and load transfer, we are exploring computational algorithms to combine both the pressure distribution data and the motion capture data. Additional analyses are planned with the existing data sets in order to find variation and correlation amongst inexperienced and experienced dancers.
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