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    This document summarizes a student project analyzing human gait. The students measured features like height, leg length, and stride length for several classmates. They also measured force during walking. Their analysis found taller people tend to take longer strides and walk with more force. They created an equation to estimate height from stride length.

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    Gait Analysis  

    Analyzing how people walk  

    Reema Heydari, Wilson Perry, Hayden Shaffer, 


    Alexis Bishop 
    October 15, 2019 
    STEM Senior Engineering  
     
     
     
     

     
    Table of Contents 
    Introduction…..………………………………………………………………..2 

    Hypothesis……………………………………………………………...…...…2 

    Materials……………………………………………………………………......2 

    Procedure…………………………………………………..………………..…2 

    Data………………………………………………………………………………3 

    Results…………………………………………………………………...………3 

    Discussion………………………………………………………….……………4 

    Conclusion……………………………………………..………………………..4 

    Abstract…………………………………………………………. ……….……..4 

    References………………………………………………………………………5 

    Appendix………………………………………………………………………..5 

    INTRODUCTION 

    For this project we were assigned to study the walking patterns of our classmates and try 
    to answer one question relating to a gait analysis. For this project we chose to try and 
    figure out how height relates to how people walk. We will conduct this experiment by 

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    measuring people’s body parts such as leg length, foot length, leg proportions, etc. We 
    will also measure the g-force of walking to compare the force of peoples steps in relation 
    to how tall they are.  

    HYPOTHESIS 

    We believe it’s possible to estimate a person’s height based on their gait data. We predict 
    that people who are taller take longer strides and walk with more force.  

    MATERIALS 

    1. Tape measure 
    2. Physics Toolbox App on phone 
    3. Blue tape, duct tape 
    4. Fanny pack 
    5. People 

    PROCEDURE/METHOD 

    1. Measured out five meters with and lined it with tape  


    2. Decided to figure out lengths of our bodies 
    3. Measured out lengths and wrote down the data 
    4. Taken the G-force of the stepping motion 
    5. Analyze data 
    6. Create a Gantt Chart 

    DATA 

       Hayden  Reema   Alexis  Wilson 

    Height  180cm  168cm  172cm  190cm 

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    Leg Length   109cm  96cm  97cm  108cm 

    Shoe length   30.48cm  27cm  27cm  28.3cm 

    Calf Length  57cm  50cm  54cm  55cm 

    Knee to Hip  57cm  48cm  52cm  55cm 

    Steps over 6  9,9,9  11,9,9  9.5,9.5,9.5  8,7,7 


    meters  

    Stride Length   57cm  42cm  46cm  55cm 

    Actual Height  Predicted Height (based on stride length)  


    180  185.25 
    168  168 
    172  172.6 
    190  182.95 

    Average residual: .0025 

    RESULTS 

    Our data seems to show that taller people have the longest stride length and take fewer 
    steps than shorter people. Also, as you can tell from our graph, people who are taller 
    tend to walk with more force than those shorter people. 

    Height in relation to stride length: height= 1.15(stride length)+119.7 

    Our equation estimates the height of a human by taking their stride length in cm, 
    multiplying it by a factor of 1.15, and then adding 119.7 cm. This equation was found 
    using  

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    DISCUSSION 

    Through this lab we found out that we can predict people's height based on their stride 
    length. Using the equation we found, we can estimate someone's height based on their 
    stride length. We also found that people who are taller tend to take longer strides. We 
    found a correlation between stride length and found the slope for our equation. We also 
    found that people who are taller walk with more force. If you were to look at our graphs 
    below that analyze the force people walk with, you can tell that the taller people tested 
    walk with more force. 

    CONCLUSION/ABSTRACT 

    Our data led us to conclude that taller people tend to take longer strides than shorter 
    people. This was in line with our hypothesis, and we now can estimate the height of 
    someone based on factors such as their stride length. This data might not accurately 
    predict the height of others because we only had a sample size of four individuals, and 
    the outcomes of our small data set might not reflect that of a larger population. The data 
    does, however, allow us to generally assume the average height of someone with a 
    certain stride length. We have calculated the variability of our predictions based on an 
    equation we created for the line of best fit. This variability can be seen in the data 
    section, where we put actual and predicted height based on stride length side by side.  

    REFERENCES  

    Robot with dynamic gait: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVNgtSnDQQ 

    Robot that adjusts gait: ​https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY 

    Mr. Tronconi’s website: ​https://sites.google.com/students.nusd.org/stemse/hom​e 

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    APPENDIX 

    Reema’s hip 

    Reema’s quad 

    Alexis’ hip 

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    Alexis’ quad 

    6  
     

    Wilson’s quad 

    Wilson’s hip 

    Hayden Hip 

    7  
     

    Hayden quad

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