As part of an entrepreneurship module, I proposed and created a mockup of an application that can analyze the running gaits of runners and provide solutions to improve their running forms. As a runner myself, I suffered from stress fractures previously due to improper training progression and degrading running form due to poor conditioning. Hence, I thought that computer vision can be used to help analyze running forms easily through a smartphone camera and having follow-up in the form of tips or even linking up with a physiologist or physiotherapist would be helpful to reduce running injuries. Together with my group of 4, we researched and even interviewed both runners and experts in computer vision, exercise physiology and physiotherapy to better understand the feasibility of the proposed solution.
