Interdisciplinary Approaches for Complex Problems

Last week I talked about your movement fingerprint and shared some of the raw signals we’re pulling. This week I’m going to go up a few levels and share some thoughts on interdisciplinary approaches to complex problems. As a few of you know, we recently brought on Dr. Sam, who is an astrophysicist. Combined, our team now has expertise in biomechanics, anthropology, geology, computational statistics, business, software engineering, materials engineering, and astrophysics*. What a range! This means that we have a unique approach to problem solving - each of us has been exposed to different computational methods of approaching data and ways of tackling multifaceted problems. So what does astrophysics have to do with human movement? Without giving away too much, it turns out that while processing signals from human movement and planets may seem very different, if you approach the problem across length scales they aren’t that different at all. But! You need context for the data, because people aren’t planets. More on that next week.  🧠

Human or Planet?