Mova: Interactive Movement Analytics Platform

There is an increasing interest in analyzing, extracting, and representing human movements in terms of a set of spatial, temporal, and qualitative characteristics for applications such as human-computer interactions and sports and health movement analysis. Information visualization techniques can be used to help people better understand the contents of movements. While all the characteristics of movement may not always be visible or detectable by humans, visualizations can illustrate detailed information about the characteristics of the movement. We present the prototype of an interactive movement analytics framework, called Mova, for feature extraction, feature visualization, and analysis of human movement data. Integrated with a library of feature extraction methods, this platform can be used to anaylze movement qualities and investigate the relationships between its characteristics. In addition, Mova can be used to develop and validate new feature extraction methods with the help of parallel visualization of multiple features. We discuss test-cases in which Mova can be used and detail the road-map for its further development. Link to the platform: http://www.sfu.ca/~oalemi/mova