Science

From forces to angles

So far, we have converted our electromyography signal, which is the electrical signal generated by a muscle when it…

Muscle Contraction Dynamics

In our electromyography data processing journey so far, we’ve gone from this:

Activation Dynamics

Let’s get back to our data processing.

Muscle activity processing

When muscles contract, they generate electricity that we can measure with a technique called electromyography (EMG). We get something that looks like this:

Hand motion capture

I’ve had lunch and dinner outside in the last three days. In England. In April. I will remember these days fondly in August, when it is cold and rainy.

But science doesn’t stop when the rain does! I spent quite a few hours in our (windowless) lab this week. The reason…

Data collection part 1

I’m writing this on a train going from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. We’ll spend the next two and a half days there collecting data for our experiment! My brain is so busy running through checklists and protocols that I can’t even think of a joke to make about the two…

Our Open Experiment

When I started doing research, I followed a well-travelled path: it starts with a scientific question, followed by the design of an experiment to answer the question, writing the necessary computer code to run the experiment, then data collection and analysis, culminating* in the glory of…