McGill: A commonly used device found in living rooms around the world could
be a cheap and effective means of evaluating the walking difficulties of
multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The Microsoft Kinect is a 3D depth-sensing camera used in interactive
video activities such as tennis and dancing. It can be hooked up to an
Xbox gaming console or a Windows computer. A team of researchers led by McGill University postdoctoral fellow
Farnood Gholami, supervised by Jozsef Kövecses from the Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Centre for Intelligent Machines, collaborated
with Daria Trojan, a physiatrist in the Department of Neurology and
Neurosurgery working at the Montreal Neurological Institute and
Hospital, to test whether the Kinect could detect the differences in
gait of MS patients compared to healthy individuals.
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