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Data for: Descending 13 real world steps: A dataset and analysis of stair descent

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Title Data for: Descending 13 real world steps: A dataset and analysis of stair descent
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SFZPOK
 
Creator Sie, Astrini
Karrenbach, Maxim
Fisher, Charlie
Fisher, Shawn
Wieck, Nathaniel
Caraballo, Callysta
Case, Elisabeth
Boe, David
Muir, Brittney
Rombokas, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Stair descent analysis has been typically limited to laboratory staircases of 4 or 5 steps. To date there has been no report of gait parameters during unconstrained stair descent outside of the laboratory, and few motion capture datasets are publicly available.

We aim to collect a dataset and perform gait analysis for stair descent outside of the laboratory. We aim to measure basic kinematic and kinetic gait parameters and foot placement behavior.

We present a public stair descent dataset from 101 unimpaired participants aged 18-35 on an unconstrained 13-step staircase collected using wearable sensors. The dataset consists of kinematics (full-body joint angle and position), kinetics (plantar normal forces, acceleration), and foot placement for 30,609 steps.

This is the first quantitative observation of gait data from a large number (n = 101) of participants descending an unconstrained staircase outside of a laboratory. The dataset is a public resource for understanding typical stair descent.
 
Subject Engineering
stair descent
gait
biomechanics
foot placement
wearables
 
Contributor Sie, Astrini