Since we are working separately but together online, we choose a somewhat generic theme we both felt comfortable with. We choose to take a look at movements in sports and basically when we discussed it we came to the conclusion that almost all genres have movement in some kind of direction in order to do the “sport”. Focusing on what makes the human body move, we ended up on “circular movements”. If we look at the way we run, the way we throw things from a biomechanical point of view we see that some parts or multiple move in circular pattern in order to create motion and force.
The sketch above makes it a bit more clear why we came to the conclusions that circular movement can be found in approximately any human movement. If we look at the joints: ankle, knee, wrists and elbows we can see that they make a revolution in order to propel the human body forward. Also the body to the right illustrates that when we make a simple turn that the whole body is rotated around the spine which represent the spinal vertebrae. Simply put most of the movements we do can be seen as a “cricular movement”.
A more casual chore we all have done atleast one time in our life is to stir a pot. Sketch 2 is with a view from above. If we track the the elbow and wrist joint of the arm stirring the pot we can se that it makes it in a circular movement.
Going back a few post I discuss very briefly fine and gross motor skills. The way we execute a movement we apply certain speed and force, but some parts of the body have some intrinsic limitation in performing these tasks. I can for example use my hands to clap very loudly and without using much precision or accuracy and at the same time I can use my hand to hold a pencil and draw very fine lines which requires maximum accuracy. If you would apply the same thought to my feet/legs they seem to perform the best in movements which call for gross motor skills? Maybe I’m trying to say that I want to give my gross motor skill the ability to perform a more accurate skill through the help of an kinaesthetic interaction.
Figure 3 is also possibility to play with the precision by choosing a color from a color pallet. Don’t if it’s necessary as it seems pretty advanced but thought I would include it as a suggestion. The interaction would be controlled by the hand (wrist) to pick color and the other hand could choose the lightness/saturation of the color?
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