Featured Application Gait smoothness assessment, particularly concerning age-related
changes, could offer a valuable clinical tool. The findings indicate the potential utility of gait …

This review highlights the biomechanical foundations of braille and tactile graphic
discrimination within the context of design innovations in information access for the blind …

Relative to print reading, braille-reading finger movements are held to be of more constant
speed, with continuous and exhaustive contact with all words. However, the continuity of …

Braille readers must learn to encode braille symbols via active exploratory touch. The former
may be novel, but the latter is an extant exploratory skill. We investigated naive, blindfolded …

This article presents the results of a human subject experiment aimed at answering the
question," can increased muscle force variability in low force levels explain increased …

The velocity traces of slow movements are notable for their intermittency: they reveal
continuous fluctuations between acceleration and deceleration. We investigate whether this …

The evaluation of motion abilities is crucial to rate human movement control performance in
several contexts. In the medical field, for example, smoothness, a feature related to the …

In their seminal research, Flash and Hogan [1] proposed the minimum jerk theory (MJT) to
explain planning in unconstrained reaching movements. With the MJT, the central nervous …

JG3:6. :.. i'/d# . Page 1 RICE UNIVERSITY Neuromuscular Mechanisms of Movement
Variability: Implications for Rehabilitation and Augmentation by Ozkan Celik Athesis …