Starting from the premise that humans can be measured The first thing I felt after reading The Invisible Hand of Data by Kazuo Yano (2014) was that it stands on a very strong premise: human behavior and states can be understood through data. Using wearable sensors, it measures movement, conversation,

It all began with “imperfect walking” Our ancestors once moved on all fours. However, evolutionary pressures such as environmental changes, the freeing of the hands, and the expansion of the field of vision gradually pushed the body toward bipedal walking. Around 4.4 million years ago, in the woodlands of

Walking is such an ordinary action that we rarely stop to think about how it actually works. But when we break down a single step, we begin to see just how rationally the human body is designed. For example, the average person is said to walk around 5,000 to

Care About Your Posture? Start With Your Feet. “I want to improve my posture.” When people think this, most of them do the same things: They straighten their back. They open their chest. They tuck their chin. None of these are wrong. But they do not address the root of

The body is not controlled from the top down, but from the ground up. We often focus on the head, back, or pelvis, but the first point of contact with the ground is the foot. Every movement begins there. When we walk, the first event is contact. Do we land

Can you describe the way you walk? You walk toward the station in the morning. Looking at your phone, moving unconsciously with the flow of people. In that moment, you are not aware of how you walk. Where you place your feet. Where your center of gravity is. You are