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Rob den Otter

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Adaptability is an inherent property of movement control: movements are meaningless, unless a fit is established between task and environment. My research is concerned with the question of how task and environmental requirements are reconciled to produce bipedal locomotion that is effective, efficient, and safe. How can we understand the proactive and reactive aspects of adaptability, and can you train people to be more adaptive? I approach these questions from both a biomechanical and an action-perception perspective. The answers provide us with a better understanding of how walking can remain functionally invariant in a continuously changing environment. These insights relate to both healthy walking, and the walking of people with altered body properties due to age, illness or trauma.
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