This work aimed to investigate the association between the perceived cushioning of a set of trail-running shoes with both their mechanical response to the impact test and the acceleration of lower limb segments while running indoors and outdoors. Earlier studies have typically focussed on the effect of road-running shoe cushioning, whereas very few have examined the perception of trail runners and outdoor trail-running conditions. Seven trail runners were trained to become reliable in evaluating the...

We develop a new method to locally cluster curves and discover functional motifs, that is, typical shapes that may recur several times along and across the curves capturing important local characteristics. In order to identify these shared curve portions, our method leverages ideas from functional data analysis (joint clustering and alignment of curves), bioinformatics (local alignment through the extension of high similarity seeds) and fuzzy clustering (curves belonging to more than one cluster, if they...

This work aimed to investigate the association between the perceived cushioning of a set of trail-running shoes with both their mechanical response to the impact test and the acceleration of lower limb segments while running indoors and outdoors. Earlier studies have typically focussed on the effect of road-running shoe cushioning, whereas very few have examined the perception of trail runners and outdoor trail-running conditions. Seven trail runners were trained to become reliable in evaluating the...