The Arts, Media and Engineering graduate program at ASU received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two National Science Foundation Grants to study real-time motion analysis.

AME is one of the nation’s few research initiatives that blend the work of artists, engineers and other experts. It joined a distinguished group of 13 non-profit arts organizations that received a total of $1.5 million from the NEA in 2003-2004. The NSF, in awarding a five-year, $1.4 million grant, said ASU “can serve as a new model for research and interdisciplinary collaboration.”

Over the past decade, human motion analysis has become an important research area. Applications may include motion rehabilitation; movement recognition for security purposes; technologies that encourage active learning in K-12; movement training for the fields of dance, theatre, sports, firefighting and the military; and, movement enhancement for robotics or other human-computer interaction. Nearly 60 faculty from 10 disciplines ranging from computer science and bioengineering to dance and psychology are involved.