Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

The course aims to provide knowledge and skills in recording, visualising, and analysing human body motion. This includes learning about human anatomy and biomechanics and getting hands-on experience with setting up, calibrating, tracking, and recording with different types of motion capture systems.

Learning outcome

Having completed the course, you will:

  • know about different technologies for capturing different types of human motion.
  • be familiar with principles of human movement analysis, including basic anatomy and biomechanics.
  • be able to operate different motion capture systems, ranging from sensor-based to infrared camera-based technologies.
  • be able to perform both qualitative and quantitative analyses based on motion capture data.
  • be able to work with live processing and animation of motion data of various types and animated characters.

Admission to the course

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester?register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for?in Studentweb.

Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures.

Overlapping courses

Teaching

The course is taught using a flipped classroom model and with blended learning methods and includes:

  • Video lectures, readings and practical tasks in preparation for the workshops.

  • 10 workshops of 4 hours.

Compulsory activities

  • Participation in 8 out of 10 workshops.

  • Eight qualifying assignments including a project demonstration.

Informati