The Validity of the Microsoft Kinect for Healthy Participants: A Short Review

Abstract

The Microsoft Kinect is a motion sensor input tool that swiftly infected in physical therapy training. Kinect have several advantages over traditional solutions which currently they are in a very affordable situation. Moreover, their accuracy for sensitive human application is still under analysis. This short review provides a summary of the validity of the Kinect sensor to comprehend their usefulness as a measurement tool for practical analysis applications. The results are challenging to compare because they depend to a huge level on the type of measurement element, the variety of human motion, and the distance of the sensor. Regardless of this, they think that the Kinect appropriately identifies motion, however, does not recognise joint rotation and different posture.