ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2023
Complexity of spatio-temporal plantar pressure patterns during everyday behaviours.
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- Static Plantar-Load Distribution and Stabilometry in Children and Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis Under Different Testing Conditions: A Pilot Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Multimodal Feature-Level Fusion CBAM U-Net for Static Plantar Pressure Prediction Using Plantar Geometry and Sparse Anatomical Landmarks.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Unveiling interactions of spatial-temporal information in tactile motion perception.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Can Plantar Pressure Distribution During Gait Be Estimated from Quiet Stance in Healthy Individuals?Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Multi-Modal Sensing for Propulsion Estimation in People Post-Stroke Across Speeds.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2025Article
- Pressure-Induced Microvascular Reactivity With Whole Foot Loading Is Unique Across the Human Foot Sole.Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994) · 2025Article
- Texture perception at the foot sole: comparison between walking, sitting, and to the hand.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Mechanoreceptor sensory feedback is impaired by pressure induced cutaneous ischemia on the human foot sole and can predict cutaneous microvascular reactivity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Complexity of spatio-temporal plantar pressure patterns during everyday behaviours.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
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Abstract
The human foot sole is the primary interface with the external world during balance and walking, and also provides important tactile information on the state of contact. However, prior studies on plantar pressure have focused mostly on summary metrics such as overall force or centre of pressure under limited conditions. Here, we recorded spatio-temporal plantar pressure patterns with high spatial resolution while participants completed a wide range of daily activities, including balancing, locomotion and jumping tasks. Contact area differed across task categories, but was only moderately correlated with the overall force experienced by the foot sole. The centre of pressure was often located outside the contact area or in locations experiencing relatively low pressure, and therefore a result of disparate contact regions spread widely across the foot. Non-negative matrix factorization revealed low-dimensional spatial complexity that increased during interaction with unstable surfaces. Additionally, pressure patterns at the heel and metatarsals decomposed into separately located and robustly identifiable components, jointly capturing most variance in the signal. These results suggest optimal sensor placements to capture task-relevant spatial information and provide insight into how pressure varies spatially on the foot sole during a wide variety of natural behaviours.
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