Body Movement Activity Research Articles

The Relationship between Dance Expectations, Resilience, and Body Satisfaction of Ballet Learners in the New Normal Era

Objectives Physical movements and non-physical activities appeared in dance education learning during the new normal period. Physical movements and non-physical activities that appeared in the dance education learning in the new normal period can affect learning dance. a study requests to verify the related to psychological factors stemming from engagement in dance education based on body movement and physical activities for maintaining seamless academic progress during the new normal era. Methods In this study, 288 majors who chose ballet-related classes in university education subjects were purposefully conveniently sampled. The hypothesis is verified by multiple regression analysis. Results First, the ‘health and vitality’ of the ED significantly affected BSQ's ‘dissatisfaction about feeling fat, shame & inferiority about body shape’. ‘health and vitality’ and ‘concern’ of the ED had a significant effect on BSQ's attitude concerning body image perception. Second, ED's ‘achievement and pleasure’ had a significant relationship with ‘calmness and patience’. ED's ‘achievement and pleasure’ had a significant relationship with ‘hope for the future’. ED's ‘achievement and pleasure’ had a significant relationship with ‘interest’. Third, the ‘calmness and patience’ of resilience had a significant relationship with ‘dissatisfaction about feeling fat, shame, and inferiority about body shape’. Conclusions The ‘health and vitality’ of expectations for dance is related to ‘dissatisfaction about body shape’ and concerning body image perception'. The ‘achievement and pleasure’ of expectations for dance is related to ‘calmness and patience’, ‘hope for the future’, and ‘interest’. The ‘calmness and patience’ of resilience is related to ‘dissatisfaction about body shape’.

Implementasi Kegiatan Fisik Pada Kegiatan Senam Untuk Menstimulasi Perkembangan Fisik Pada Anak Sekolah Dasar

Every child needs activities that are beneficial for their health. One of the activities that can be done is rhythmic gymnastics. This study uses the literature review method. A literature review is an approach in a traditionally conducted literature review with the aim of collecting and critically evaluating various reference sources related to the topic being discussed. Every child needs physical activity for their physical development later on, the factors that affect physical development in children are gross motor physical development where children are not yet able to perform body movement activities in coordination, lack of body flexibility and balance in the strength of the child's leg muscles. Children's motor development can be said to be mature if children have body skills and a healthy way of life, with this can support strong, healthy and skillful physical growth. The form of activities that can develop gross motor skills in children is to invite children to exercise one of them with this rhythmic gymnastics, with this the child can freely move all his limbs.

Deep learning-based sleep stage classification with cardiorespiratory and body movement activities in individuals with suspected sleep disorders

Deep learning methods have gained significant attention in sleep science. This study aimed to assess the performance of a deep learning-based sleep stage classification model constructed using fewer physiological parameters derived from cardiorespiratory and body movement data. Overnight polysomnography (PSG) data from 123 participants (age: 19–82 years) with suspected sleep disorders were analyzed. Multivariate time series data, including heart rate, respiratory rate, cardiorespiratory coupling, and body movement frequency, were input into a bidirectional long short-term memory (biLSTM) network model to train and predict five-class sleep stages. The trained model's performance was evaluated using balanced accuracy, Cohen's κ coefficient, and F1 scores on an epoch-per-epoch basis and compared with the ground truth using the leave-one-out cross-validation scheme. The model achieved an accuracy of 71.2 ± 5.8%, Cohen's κ of 0.425 ± 0.115, and an F1 score of 0.650 ± 0.083 across all sleep stages, and all metrics were negatively correlated with the apnea–hypopnea index, as well as age, but positively correlated with sleep efficiency. Moreover, the model performance varied for each sleep stage, with the highest F1 score observed for N2 and the lowest for N3. Regression and Bland–Altman analyses between sleep parameters of interest derived from deep learning and PSG showed substantial correlations (r = 0.33–0.60) with low bias. The findings demonstrate the efficacy of the biLSTM deep learning model in accurately classifying sleep stages and in estimating sleep parameters for sleep structure analysis using a reduced set of physiological parameters. The current model without using EEG information may expand the application of unobtrusive in-home monitoring to clinically assess the prevalence of sleep disorders outside of a sleep laboratory.

Differences in Brain Activity and Body Movements Between Virtual Reality and Offline Exercise: Randomized Crossover Trial

Virtual reality (VR) has been suggested to be effective at enhancing physical exercises because of its immersive characteristics. However, few studies have quantitatively assessed the range of motion and brain activity during VR exercises. We hypothesized that 3D immersive VR could stimulate body movement and brain activity more effectively than standard exercises and that the increased range of motions during 3D immersive VR exercises would be associated with orbitofrontal activation. A randomized crossover trial was conducted to compare exercises with and without VR. A total of 24 healthy males performed the same motions when exercising with and without 3D immersive VR, and the recorded videos were used for motion analysis. Hemodynamic changes in the prefrontal cortex were assessed using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. There were significant differences in the total angle (z=-2.31; P=.02), length (z=-2.78; P=.005), calorie consumption (z=-3.04; P=.002), and change in accumulated oxygenated hemoglobin within the right orbitofrontal cortex (F1,94=9.36; P=.003) between the VR and offline trials. Hemodynamic changes in the right orbitofrontal cortex were positively correlated with the total angle (r=0.45; P=.001) and length (r=0.38; P=.007) in the VR exercise; however, there was no significant correlation in the offline trial. The results of this study suggest that 3D immersive VR exercise effectively increases the range of motion in healthy individuals in relation to orbitofrontal activation. Clinical Research Information Service KCT0008021; https://cris.nih.go.kr/cris/search/detailSearch.do/23671.

Pemakaian Kosakata Tema Kesehatan dalam Penciptaan Lirik Lagu Anak

The Use of Health-Themed Vocabulary in Creating Children's Song Lyrics. Children's songs can convey the songwriter's messages and describe the children's lives and the environment through their perspective in the lyrics. In this context, the song is the unity of the melody and lyrics. In addition, songs can also function as a means of exploration, information, expression, and entertainment. This research was conducted to determine the description of health-themed vocabulary uses in children's song lyrics. How health vocabulary, especially in children's song lyrics, is used by children's songwriters. The study sample was a set of songs from a collection of the best children's songs, Dendang Kencana. The research used a descriptive-analytical method, which was preceded by a literature study followed by determining the lyrics of the health-themed song lyrics created by the songwriters of Dendang Kencana song album. Data collection was carried out by using the ten-song lyrics with scores. Those songs were the best songs chosen from the Dendang Kencana album. The two songs were the best-selected songs in the Dendang Kencana Children's Songwriting Competition in 2017. The lyrics were observed and recorded, and analyzed to determine the vocabulary used within the children's song lyrics. The vocabulary was then grouped and interpreted according to the purpose of this study. The results show that in children's songs, the vocabulary of the health-themed is often used by the songwriters to emphasize the importance of being healthy and healthy since childhood. The vocabulary is related to children's daily activities, such as bathing, washing hands, washing hair, maintaining a healthy body, exercising, eating nutritiously, and other movement activities.

Applications of nanogenerators for biomedical engineering and healthcare systems

The dream of human beings for long living has stimulated the rapid development of biomedical and healthcare equipment. However, conventional biomedical and healthcare devices have shortcomings such as short service life, large equipment size, and high potential safety hazards. Indeed, the power supply for conventional implantable device remains predominantly batteries. The emerging nanogenerators, which harvest micro/nanomechanical energy and thermal energy from human beings and convert into electrical energy, provide an ideal solution for self‐powering of biomedical devices. The combination of nanogenerators and biomedicine has been accelerating the development of self‐powered biomedical equipment. This article first introduces the operating principle of nanogenerators and then reviews the progress of nanogenerators in biomedical applications, including power supply, smart sensing, and effective treatment. Besides, the microbial disinfection and biodegradation performances of nanogenerators have been updated. Next, the protection devices have been discussed such as face mask with air filtering function together with real‐time monitoring of human health from the respiration and heat emission. Besides, the nanogenerator devices have been categorized by the types of mechanical energy from human beings, such as the body movement, tissue and organ activities, energy from chemical reactions, and gravitational potential energy. Eventually, the challenges and future opportunities in the applications of nanogenerators are delivered in the conclusive remarks.image

Learning Activities in Preschool Classrooms: Preferences of Preschool Teachers and Views of Parents

Early childhood teachers and their preferences are very important in order to apply a balanced curriculum in the early childhood education classroom. On the other hand, the views of parents play an important role in classroom implementations; although their views can sometimes create barriers for teachers, and sometimes teachers can be inspired by them. As a result, both teachers’ preferences and parents’ views need to be investigated in order to understand how they affect learning activities in early childhood education classrooms. With this purpose, this study aims to investigate preschool teachers’ preferences and parents’ views of learning activities applied in preschool classrooms through a case study. The study included 25 preschool teachers and 33 preschool children’s parents. Data collection took the form of semi-structured interviews held with the preschool teachers and the parents of preschool children. The results of the study revealed that the preschool teachers mostly preferred art, mathematics, and literacy activities, whilst science, drama, and body movement activities were the least implemented types of activities in the early childhood classroom. On the other hand, language, literacy and body movement activities were considered most important activities by parents. Moreover, the needs of the children, products, and processes were the first three reasons behind the teachers’ classroom activity preferences, whilst the teachers’ self-confidence in applying the activities was the least influential factor in their activity preferences.

Infant inclined sleep product safety: A model for using biomechanics to explore safe infant product design

Over 450 adverse incidents have been reported in infant inclined sleep products over the past 17 years, with many infants found dead in both the supine and prone positions. The unique design of inclined sleep products may present unexplored suffocation risks related to how these products impact an infant’s ability to move. The purpose of this study was to assess body movement and muscle activity of healthy infants when they lie supine and prone on different inclined sleep products. Fifteen healthy full-term infants (age: 17.7 ± 4.9 weeks) were recruited for this IRB-approved study. Three inclined sleep products with unique features, representative of different sleeper designs, were included. Surface electromyography (EMG) was recorded from infants’ cervical paraspinal, abdominal, and lumbar erector spinae muscles for 60 s during supine and prone positioning. Neck and trunk sagittal plane movements were evaluated for each testing condition. Paired t-tests and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests were performed to compare each inclined sleeper to a flat crib mattress (0° baseline condition). During prone positioning, abdominal muscle activity significantly nearly doubled for all inclined sleep products compared to the flat crib mattress, while erector spinae muscle activity decreased by up to 48%. Trunk movement significantly increased compared to the flat crib mattress during prone lying. During prone lying, inclined sleep products resulted in significantly higher muscle activity of the trunk core muscles (abdominals) and trunk movement, which has the potential to exacerbate fatigue and contribute to suffocation if an infant cannot self-correct to the supine position.

Measuring the Effectiveness of Exergames among Gen Z using Kinect Sensor and EEG

Nowadays, generation Z are not interested in applying the traditional method in sports or learning activity. General observation found that primary students nowadays are eagerly using technology during learning or sports activity. Exergames using Kinect is one of the solutions to encourage the interest of generation z. This research focusses on the Effectiveness of Exergames using Kinect Sensor among primary students. The research also uses EEG measurement to prove the attention level of students during this activity. The emphasis of this paper is the student's performance and their level of focus. The signals from the EEG set are acquired while the students are playing the games and the Kinect sensor will be able to sense their movements during the session. The Kinect sensor can sense the users' whole body movement and physical activity that makes it more flexible in terms of area of monitoring. Finding from previous research shows that Exergames using Kinect Sensor is more fun and relaxing to increase the attention level of primary students.

The Application of Body Movement as a Teaching Tool in Children's Group Singing Lessons

The purpose of this research was to investigate the use of body movements as a teaching tool in the Malaysian primary school's children group singing lessons. This study used a qualitative methodology. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six music teachers. Data was analysed using a theme-based analysis of the narratives. The findings demonstrated that body movements helped the children to improve their vocal techniques and achieve a more successful sound in group singing. Music teachers also stated that emphasis on body movement activities in the class helped children to be more involved in singing. Such movements require to be encouraged to improve the quality of music learning. Training programmes for music teachers also require to incorporate body movements as a teaching tool for effective group singing.

Neurobehavioural signatures in race car driving: a case study

Recent technological developments in mobile brain and body imaging are enabling new frontiers of real-world neuroscience. Simultaneous recordings of body movement and brain activity from highly skilled individuals as they demonstrate their exceptional skills in real-world settings, can shed new light on the neurobehavioural structure of human expertise. Driving is a real-world skill which many of us acquire to different levels of expertise. Here we ran a case-study on a subject with the highest level of driving expertise—a Formula E Champion. We studied the driver’s neural and motor patterns while he drove a sports car on the “Top Gear” race track under extreme conditions (high speed, low visibility, low temperature, wet track). His brain activity, eye movements and hand/foot movements were recorded. Brain activity in the delta, alpha, and beta frequency bands showed causal relation to hand movements. We herein demonstrate the feasibility of using mobile brain and body imaging even in very extreme conditions (race car driving) to study the sensory inputs, motor outputs, and brain states which characterise complex human skills.

신체움직임을 활용한 순환학습기반 유아과학교육 프로그램이 유아의 과학적 탐구능력, 과학적 태도, 물체조작능력 및 공간능력에 미치는 효과

Objective: This study aims to investigate the effects of a learning cycle model-based early childhood education program using physical motion on young children’s scientific inquiry ability, scientific attitude, object manipulation ability and spatial ability. Methods: The subjects of this study were 60 five-year-old children who were attending K-G City Childcare Center. The SPSS Window 21.0 program and content analysis method were used, and post-validation Tukey was conducted to examine the differences between the one-way ANOVA and the group. Results: Activities using body movement were practiced systematically based on the circle learning. Children could revise their pre-concept and concept of error by interacting with other children, teachers and the environment. Furthermore ,children were attaining new knowledge while they were doing body movement activities, assessing and applying them to actual activities. Conclusion/Implications: This study is investigated a cyclic learning-based early childhood science education program using physical motion, which has significance in systematic and practical early childhood centered education for young children.

Hyperactive behavior of athletes with post-concussion symptoms

ObjectiveObservations of hyperactive (/restless, agitated) behavior as a consequence of sport related concussions (SRC) are inconclusive as hypoactivity has also commonly been described. This might be grounded in the fact that the movement behavior of athletes has not been systematically investigated during standardized settings and with objective methods of movement analysis.BackgroundThus, we investigated the contradiction whether symptoms after SRC are characterized by a hyper- or hypoactive movement behavior experimentally.Design/MethodsThree matched groups were investigated: 14 symptomatic and 14 asymptomatic athletes with a concussion; and 12 non-concussed athletes. Four certified raters analyzed with the NEUROGES the Activation and Contact incl. Rest/Pose categories as reliable measures of hypo/hyperactivity of (hand) / body movement activity that were displayed during a videotaped standardized anamnesis protocol.ResultsSymptomatic athletes spend significantly more time with act apart hand movements and less time with closed rest positions when compared to non-concussed athletes. Post-concussion symptom (PCS) scores positively correlate with act apart hand movements. A linear regression analysis revealed that act apart hand movements significantly predict the PCS score.ConclusionsIn line with previous descriptions of hyperactivity after SRC, athletes with increased symptoms after mTBI in sports behave hyperactive and restless when analyzed systematically. Because agitated/restless behavior was previously described in the concussed athletes who were later diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), we suggest that future diagnoses should concern the detailed analysis of the movement activity as a potential behavioral marker of sport related concussions.

An algorithm for tracking C. elegans body movement and muscular activity in Ca2+ dynamics video for tuning and validation of its locomotion simulation

An algorithm for tracking C. elegans body movement and muscular activity in Ca2+ dynamics video for tuning and validation of its locomotion simulation

Interação reflexiva como paradigma transversal para a criatividade, educação musical e musicoterapia

O escopo deste estudo é apresentar o paradigma da "interação reflexiva" criado no contexto dos estudos sobre a interação homem-máquina e utilizado no âmbito do Projeto MIROR- Musical Interaction Relying On Reflection. Através deste projeto, foi construída uma plataforma tecnológica musical para crianças, incluindo atividades de improvisação, criação e movimento corporal, aplicando o paradigma de interação reflexiva no campo da criatividade musical e no campo da criatividade motora infantil. O foco deste texto é destacar o paradigma de interação reflexiva na interseção entre educação musical e musicoterapia, como um quadro teórico efetivo para fortalecer traços comuns a ambas as áreas, tanto do ponto de vista da aplicação teórica quanto da experiência prática.

Comparing Classroom Context and Physical Activity in Nature and Traditional Kindergartens

Growing interest in nature-based learning has resulted in an increasing number of nature schools despite a limited understanding about what kind of instructional approaches are employed or how these approaches affect children's physical activity. The purpose of this exploratory single-observer study was to use naturalistic observations to compare how the instructional context of nature-based and traditional kindergartens affected students' gross body movement and specific activity types, as well as to explore how the structure of these classroom environments influenced students' physical activity. Participants included 81 students attending three nature-based and traditional public kindergartens in Western Canada. Children in nature kindergartens engaged in more slow-easy, moderate, and vigorous gross body movements and a greater breadth of specific activity types than peers in traditional kindergartens. Nature kindergartens provided more opportunities for students to make choices, engage in unstructured activity, and participate in free time than traditional kindergartens. Overall there was more variability across nature kindergarten classrooms than across traditional kindergartens.

The Effect Of Music Listening Program with Body Movement Activity on Musical Ability of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Effect Of Music Listening Program with Body Movement Activity on Musical Ability of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

The role of visual stimuli on standing posture in children with bilateral cerebral palsy.

BackgroundIn children with bilateral cerebral palsy (CP) maintaining a standing position can be difficult. The fundamental motor task of standing independently is achieved by an interaction between the visual, somatosensory, and vestibular systems. In CP, the motor disorders are commonly accompanied by sensory and perceptual disturbances. Our aims were to examine the influence of visual stimuli on standing posture in relation to standing ability.MethodsThree dimensional motion analysis with surface electromyography was recorded to describe body position, body movement, and muscle activity during three standing tasks: in a self-selected position, while blindfolded, and during an attention-demanding task. Participants were twenty-seven typically-developing (TD) children and 36 children with bilateral CP, of which 17 required support for standing (CP-SwS) and 19 stood without support (CP-SwoS).ResultsAll children with CP stood with a more flexed body position than the TD children, even more pronounced in the children in CP-SwS. While blindfolded, the CP-SwS group further flexed their hips and knees, and increased muscle activity in knee extensors. In contrast, the children in CP-SwoS maintained the same body position but increased calf muscle activity. During the attention-demanding task, the children in CP-SwoS stood with more still head and knee positions and with less muscle activity.ConclusionsVisual input was important for children with CP to maintain a standing position. Without visual input the children who required support dropped into a further crouched position. The somatosensory and vestibular systems alone could not provide enough information about the body position in space without visual cues as a reference frame. In the children who stood without support, an intensified visual stimulus enhanced the ability to maintain a quiet standing position. It may be that impairments in the sensory systems are major contributors to the difficulties to stand erect in children with CP.

STABLE AND CRITICAL GESTICULATION RECOGNITION IN CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN BY WEIGHTED NAÏVE BAYES CLASSIFICATION

The healthcare monitoring on a remote care taking base involves many implicit observations between the subjects and the care takers. Any deficit in domain knowledge and carelessness leads to unpleasant situations thereafter. A wearable attire system can precisely interpret the implicit communication of the state of the subject and pass it to the care takers or to an automated aid device. Casual and conventional movements of subjects during play and living condition can be used for the above purpose. The proposed system suggests a novel way of identifying safe and unsafe conditions of playing for the children where a rapid warning assistance is required. The same system is used in the case of the normal and contraction time identification of pregnant women. Naive Bayes classifier was applied on features created by different algorithms and on the combinations of features constructed by algorithms like Fractal Dimension, Fast Fourier Transformation, Singular Value Decomposition. The result shows in general that the combinational features with point system results in better classification. Especially the FFT and SVD were more supportive in all three sets of experiments and better classified by Navie Bayes classifier than the other combinations and individual features. But the complexity is high when going through the point system. When a priori based point system is introduced with a reduced complexity to replace the conventional point system, the enhanced results show a well-distinguished realization of different body movement activities using a wearable attire array and the interpretation consistently results in significant and identifiable thresholds.

Stable and Critical Gesture Recognition in Children and Pregnant Women by SVM Classification with FFT Features of Signals from Wearable Attires

The aim is to identify stable and critical recognition in children and pregnant women by wearable interface based monitoring system. The objective of this research proposal is to identify safe and danger zone prediction in toddler and normal and contra pain in pregnant women. The technology supporting this analysis of gesture has advanced dramatically. Past decades of remote health care monitoring have provided us with significant knowledge about the accuracy of tests performed. Mainly motivated by increasing healthcare costs and propelled by recent technological advances in miniature bio sensing devices, smart textiles, microelectronics and wireless communications, the continuous advance of wearable sensor-based systems will potentially transform the future of healthcare by enabling proactive personal health management and ubiquitous monitoring of a toddler and pregnant women health condition.The remote healthcare monitoring on a care taking base involves many implicit observations between the subjects and the care takers. Any ignorance and negligence leads to unpleasant situations thereafter. A simple wearable attire system can precisely interpret the implicit communication of the state of the subject and pass it to the care takers or to an automated aid device. Casual and conventional movements of subjects during play and living condition can be used for the above purpose. The methodology suggests a novel way of identifying safe and unsafe conditions of playing for the children as well as normal and critical situations of pregnant women where a medical assistance is desperately required. The experimental results show a well- distinguished realization of different body movement activities using a wearable attire array medium and the interpretation results always show significant and identifiable thresholds.