Motor control mechanism of aesthetic human movements

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H06688
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Tanabe Hiroko 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 助教 (60780666)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 歩行 / 感性 / バイオロジカルモーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We recruited female runway models and non-models and obtained motion capture data during walking under "normal" and "self-attractive conscious" conditions. We investigated the biomechanical information which transmits the attractiveness of walking motion.
When non-models were conscious of their own attractiveness during walking, whole body movements were changed; their knees were extended and trunk segments were bending backward. Walking movement of runway models was the exaggeration of such biomechanical features of non-models during self-attractive conscious condition. These results suggest that walking patterns of runway models, which was created for fashion business, could be the exaggerated walking motion of biologically attractive human walking movement.

Free Research Field

運動制御、生体工学