Smartphone Apps Assess Motor Performance Skills
A scoping review led by researchers at Karlsruhe institutes and published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2026) searched literature in March 2024 and identified 10 studies using seven smartphone apps to assess motor performance skills (MPS). Six apps had validation data, covering gait, breaststroke, running, countermovement jump, shoulder mobility, and a functional movement battery across diverse adult populations, indicating scalable, low-cost biomechanical assessment while urging further app development and validation.
Key Points
- 1Identify 10 studies using seven smartphone apps, six of which report validation data for MPS assessment.
- 2Demonstrate markerless single-camera pose estimation approximates lab-based kinematics for several movements.
- 3Enable scalable, low-cost biomechanical screening for health, sports, and large-scale research applications.
Scoring Rationale
Comprehensive scoping review with validated app evidence, offering practical synthesis but limited novelty beyond collating existing evaluations and studies.
Sources
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