Course content

The course aims to provide knowledge and skills in recording, visualising, and analysing human body motion. This includes learning about human anatomy and biomechanics and getting hands-on experience with setting up, calibrating, tracking, and recording with different types of motion capture systems.

Learning outcome

Having completed the course, you will:

  • know about different technologies for capturing different types of human motion.
  • be familiar with principles of human movement analysis, including basic anatomy and biomechanics.
  • be able to operate different motion capture systems, ranging from sensor-based to infrared camera-based technologies.
  • be able to perform both qualitative and quantitative analyses based on motion capture data.
  • be able to work with live processing and animation of motion data of various types and animated characters.

Admission to the course

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester?register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for?in Studentweb.

This course is for students admitted to Music, Communication and Technology (master) and Musicology (master) (being phased out). Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures.

Overlapping courses

Teaching

The course is taught using a flipped classroom model and with blended learning methods and includes:

  • Video lectures, readings and practical tasks in preparation for the workshops.

  • 10 workshops of 4 hours.

Compulsory activities

  • Participation in 8 out of 10 workshops.

  • Eight qualifying assignments including a project demonstration.

Information about assignments and the deadlines are available in Canvas. Students have to hand in the assignments within the given deadline, and are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the requirements for the compulsory activities.

The compulsory activities are only valid within the current semester. All compulsory activities must be approved in order to sit for the exam. Students are responsible to keep track of registered absences and check that everything has been approved.

This is how you apply for a valid absence from compulsory activity/compulsory attendance.

Examination

  • Portfolio (semester project)?

    • The project consists of design and implementation of a motion capture system. This may include optical infrared motion capture, accelerometry, IMU based motion capture, gyroscopes, EMGs, video-based pose retrieval, or a combination of these. Projects are decided by students but must be approved by the course coordinator. Produced project material must be submitted with documentation to replicate results. Projects are summarized in an academic paper describing design, implementation and evaluation of the developed system, with a particular focus on related works, selected motion capture and biomechanical techniques, data gathering, data processing, and a consideration of the associated technical aspects. The paper should also include critical reflections and thoughts. The body of the paper should be approximately 2300 words.

You have to fulfill the requirements of the compulsory activities to sit the exam.

Language of examination

The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

More about examinations at UiO

You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.

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Facts about this course

Level
Master
Credits
10
Teaching
Spring
Examination
Spring
Teaching language
English

Contact

Department of Musicology