Instrumented Apparel for the Collection of Kinematic Motion

A unit of wearable apparel designed for wear on an arm, leg, upper torso, lower torso or any combination of limbs and body structure, constructed to maintain sensors and feedback devices in particular positions during use and to reproduce these positions from one re-application of the unit to the next, this unit of wearable apparel comprising:

• an array of one or more sensors integrated into said unit of wearable apparel and configured to generate outputs measuring the structural motions of the body structure to which the sensors are mounted and said sensors are networked together in a manner enabling data processing devices to acquire this sensor data;
• an array of one or more feedback devices integrated into said unit of wearable apparel and configured to generate an output intended to be detectable by the wearer of said unit and these feedback devices are networked together in a manner enabling data processing devices to deliver signals to said feedback devices;
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• user interface devices integrated into said wearable apparel and networked together in a manner enabling data processing devices to associate specific user inputs with specific user interface devices.