Making sense of movement with the virtual Prof: development of a cross-faculty set of online tutorials Background QMUL students from a range of disciplines struggle to make the most of complex movement capture data sets, limiting outcomes of their teaching and research. Furthermore, we are missing the chance to develop key transferable analysis skills. We therefore proposed a cross-faculty collaboration to develop a suite of e-learning resources, to act as a 'virtual prof' and yield a long-term solution. Funding was requested to develop these resources in an iterative process and to share them. Aims The aim of the project was to solve the problem faced by many students in analysing their complex movement capture data. Our objectives were to develop a step-by-step e-learning resource through QM+ that would initially be comprised of a composition of short tutorials, in addition to a collation of existing on-line resources with the aim of enabling the student to work with a basic text file to transform it to a graphical visualisation that includes kinetic analysis and synchronisation of muscle activation (electromyography) with kinematic and kinetic moment outputs from movement data. It was envisaged that the impact of this work would be significant transferable skills, improved data analysis, improvement of resources to support teaching and research and a set of transferable electronic resources which will contribute to QMUL's support of students in handling complex data sets. These have all been realised. Activities Two students were supported by Professor Woledge and others in SEM to draft initial learning resources. These drafts were then refined, and added to by Dr Sarah Domone and Dr Birn-Jeffrey to deliver the core material. Dr Saira Chaudhry then adapted these and uploaded them on to QM+. A well-attended engagement and dissemination event was held as part of a week of events focussing on muscles and movement, open to a wide audience of people interested in motion capture. This hackathon introduced motion capture experts with motion capture students to solve their problems and was well received. Three events that week were held, and structured as tribute to Professor Roger Woledge who died suddenly in a horse riding accident. Outcomes The original aims of the project were (Figure 1) in the main, met, although we inevitably struggled to deliver these to time.
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Making sense of movement with the virtual Prof: development of
a cross-faculty set of online tutorials Background
QMUL students from a range of disciplines struggle to make the most of complex movement capture
data sets, limiting outcomes of their teaching and research. Furthermore, we are missing the chance
to develop key transferable analysis skills. We therefore proposed a cross-faculty collaboration to
develop a suite of e-learning resources, to act as a 'virtual prof' and yield a long-term solution.
Funding was requested to develop these resources in an iterative process and to share them.
Aims
The aim of the project was to solve the problem faced by many students in analysing their complex
movement capture data. Our objectives were to develop a step-by-step e-learning resource through
QM+ that would initially be comprised of a composition of short tutorials, in addition to a collation
of existing on-line resources with the aim of enabling the student to work with a basic text file to
transform it to a graphical visualisation that includes kinetic analysis and synchronisation of muscle
activation (electromyography) with kinematic and kinetic moment outputs from movement data. It
was envisaged that the impact of this work would be significant transferable skills, improved data
analysis, improvement of resources to support teaching and research and a set of transferable
electronic resources which will contribute to QMUL's support of students in handling complex data
sets. These have all been realised.
Activities
Two students were supported by Professor Woledge and others in SEM to draft initial learning
resources. These drafts were then refined, and added to by Dr Sarah Domone and Dr Birn-Jeffrey to
deliver the core material. Dr Saira Chaudhry then adapted these and uploaded them on to QM+. A
well-attended engagement and dissemination event was held as part of a week of events focussing
on muscles and movement, open to a wide audience of people interested in motion capture. This
hackathon introduced motion capture experts with motion capture students to solve their problems
and was well received. Three events that week were held, and structured as tribute to Professor
Roger Woledge who died suddenly in a horse riding accident.
Outcomes
The original aims of the project were (Figure 1) in the main, met, although we inevitably struggled to
deliver these to time.
Figure 1: original plan
Specifically, we managed to:
1. Capture student learning with regards to analysis of data;
2. Develop e-learning system to teach analysis of complex data sets, i.e. from ‘movement to meaning;
3. Maximize student input through their participation in development of the teaching resource;
4. Build skill development in handling large data sets – key skill for their future careers;
5. Train students in tackling unfamiliar problems;
6. Provide a stimulating method for skills development in data analysis
We also managed to run the dissemination events. Our next step is to make sure the resources are
well used by students this year.
Challenges
There were two particular challenges. The first was the impact of Roger’s death which necessitated
us to take more time and find another data analyst to assist. The second barrier has been getting the
resources in a suitable form, now achieved via QM+ as planned, which has limited our ability to get
feedback – planned for this academic year.
Evaluation
Students were assessed through survey and focus groups in order to develop the resource. We had
some formal feedback from the hackathon (appendix 1), although the response rate to this was
limited. Using these resources this year will garner more feedback.
Students from different disciplinary background will be informed of the Virtual Prof resource.
Although open to all, we will target MEng students who will have some basic knowledge in
programming and/or specifically using MatLab. Students from SEM will be unlikely to have had any
formal previous programming training. Therefore, students from these different disciplines will give
us a more comprehensive feedback across both new and more advanced programming users.
Focus groups consisting of a) 3 students who used the resource extensively, and b) 3 students who
used the resource lightly but could have benefitted from using it more, will be formed each year. The
focus groups will be asked about the usefulness of the package, whether it helped them, what the
strengths/weaknesses were and whether they have any suggestions for improving the tool. From
this input, the resource will be continually updated on at least a yearly basis to improve the
effectiveness of the tool.
Enrolling MEng students to give feedback, as they have some basic knowledge regarding Matlab and
programming
SEM student will be directed to use this as a resource during their data analysis phase and feedback
will be collected from them on what they found useful, how it helped them, what are the strength
and weakness of Virtual Prof and any suggestions for improvement.
SEM students will be informed of this package on the Research methods module during their data
analysis phase. A link to the QM+ page will also be made available through the Research methods
page. Project supervisors will be informed of this tool, and asked to direct students to this resource.
Further work and dissemination
Currently not all project supervisors are aware of the Virtual Prof tool on the QM+ website.
Therefore to disseminate the access to this tool, an email flyer will be generated (similar to the flyer
created for the “Hackathon event”), and sent round to all supervisors within the relevant groups.
This flyer will also be used to advertise the tool more broadly across Queen Mary. It is hoped that all
students who require biomechanical analysis, will be directed to the QM+ resource in their data
analysis phase.
The project will be presented in the Educational Research Seminar and will be shared on the
teaching and learning website under ‘’ Case Studies and Developments’’ section that contains
updates and commentaries on projects and innovations carried out at Queen Mary. In addition to
this, the tutorials will also be launched online on the QMPlus website for students to access across
the college (http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5161).
Appendix 1: Hackathon planning details
The Roger Woledge
Hackathon Organised by Queen Mary University
Making sense of movement with the Virtual Prof Website address
First Multidisciplinary Hackathon at the
QMUL East London
Speed dating, computing support,
analyst stations, statistical solution,
networking, industry involvement, new
technologies and other activities
Focus on muscles and movement and
win prizes
23rd April 2016
at
Queen Mary
University of London
Meeting challenges and developing solutions across boundaries. Saturday April 23rd 2016, QMUL East London
Editorial We will connect researchers, experts, students, analysts, scientists, inventors, business
leaders and the coalface crew in an innovative format designed to share expertise and solve problems
– on the day, before the day and beyond.
We will provide space and support to solve problems.
Professor Emeritus Roger Woledge was the quintessential scientist, academic, mentor and
educator. He applied his educational ethos and analytical expertise to a diversity of problems, and to
the benefit of varied research, translational and educational groups. He also made amazing
marmalade, gave wise counsel and modelled how to treat people. His legacy includes generations of
clinicians, scientists and industrial innovators who get better clinical results, answer important
questions and produce amazing inventions. All the while valuing each other as complete human
beings. What’s not to inspire?
The day will involve what?
Speed dating, Computing support, Analyst stations, Guidance by experts Statistical solutions, Networking lunch, Industry involvement, Animations…
Possible Organisers:
Dylan and TEAM – human biomech
Tim and team – veterinary bomech
Pat H – media and arts
Akram A – sensors
Sean Williams – statistics
Industry lead – from EECS
David Arrowsmith - Maths
Synopsis
Dates: 23rd April 2016 from 9am to 6pm. And it continues after at the pub…
Location: Room G27 of the School of Engineering and Materials Science
(SEMS) – Bancroft Road, London.
Access: Stepney green station for London underground
Queen Mary University bus stop
Price: £20
Synopsis of the event
TIME ACTIVITY
09:00
09:30
Registration - breakfast
10:00
10:30
Opening – Chair speech and introduction of the experts
10:30
11:00 Announce problems and speed dating
11:00
11:30
Match Groups –Team building- and start working
11:30
13:00
Working in team – Group 1–
13:00 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30
15:00
Working in team – Group 2–
15:00
Working in team – Group 3–
16:30
16:30
17:00
Last hacks, finish up your work
17:00 18:00
Presentation/ demo / prizes
18:00 late
Post event Pub
Email address of organisers: [email protected] [email protected]
Administrative information:
Event title The Roger Woledge Hackathon
Event subtitle Making sense of movement with virtual prof
Event date 23rd April 2016
Event timings – START AND END
9.00 to 21.00
Event venue Room G27 of the School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) – Bancroft Road – Stepney green underground station
Synopsis of event See below
Registration information
Surname Firstname Email address Apply as – a company/ a university/ a researcher/ a student/ a technician/ other Organisation: Country Address City Zip code Website: Profil: Maths/Engineer/Developer/Health Professional/ Entrepreneur Any food diet :
Preliminary flyer
Number of places
Approximatively 60 attendees
URL of the web page
In process
Special requirements
Laptops for each table in the G27 room ?
Appendix 2:
Hackathon summary
Presentation of the Virtual Prof The Virtual Prof is a series of tutorials to learn how to program under Matlab (MathWorks) for
students. The 13 chapters allows us to learn the basics of the signal processing tool box, from the
Matlab layout to several statistics tool such as the linear regression. Thus the student will
understand the syntax of this programming language and the logics behind the analysis. Thanks to
examples, it is possible to them to copy+paste few lines of code and to change them for seeing what
happens then. The 13 chapters are:
1. Layout of the Workspace
2. Reading and Writing files
3. Cleaning, aligning and filtering data
4. Vector and matrices
5. Storing and Naming data
6. Graphs
7. Normalization
8. 3D orientation and rotation matrices
9. 3D transformations
10. Distributions and transformation of data set
11. Measures of central tendency
12. Correlation and linear regression
13. Basic comparative stats
A page on QM+ has been set up with each tutorial material as embedded and available online
(figures below)
Report on the Hackathon Queen Mary University of London hosted the first Roger Woledge Hackathon on the 23rd of April 2016.
Researchers, experts, PhD students and business leaders were present for about 25 attendees. It was
an opportunity to solve complex problems in a multidisciplinary environment. Following the main
theme ‘Making sense of movement with the virtual prof’, attendees were encouraged to work as
teams around a shared problem and develop algorithms. Works related to EMG data, accelerometers,
gait analysis and imaging were presented under the supervision of Dr Dylan Morrissey and the invited
experts:
1. Dr Glenn Lichtwark – Biomechanics and Muscle Physiology – University of Queensland
2. Dr Monica Daley – Locomotor Biomechanics – Royal Veterinary College
3. Dr Jim Usherwood – terrestrial and aerial locomotion – Royal Veterinary College
4. Dr Emma Hodson-Tole – Neuromusculoskeletal Integration – Manchester Metropolitan
University
5. Dr Bertrand Bru – accelerometers – Charnwood Dynamics Ltd
In a friendly atmosphere and around pizzas, the participants were able to discuss about their project
and share their idea before to make them concrete. The good feedback we received encourage us to
reiterate the experience next year. For the next edition, we will take into account the highlights which
will be provided by the survey sent to the attendees.
Finally, the day finished in the pub to enable conversations to continue. Watch out for the next event.
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