Achievement

In the graduate laboratory course, Integrative Methods in Perceptual Science, created by the IGERT, students work on projects in interdisciplinary teams. This year's students carried out a novel project on human motor control that required recording (via electromagnetic systems) spatiotemporal patterns of humans performing complex patterns (tennis serves; martial arts routines). The recordings were used to model the statistical variability of the velocity/acceleration characteristics of key joint locations, and use these models to endow an avatar with the same motion patterns. The project provided all students with opportunities to work in teams, and with deep immersion in both computational and behavioral approaches to human perception and motor control.