Gait Maturation Database

Creators: Jeffrey Hausdorff, Chung-Kang Peng

Published: Oct. 28, 1999
Version: 1.0.0

Citation

When using this resource, please cite the original publication:
Hausdorff, J. M., Zemany, L., Peng, C.-K., & Goldberger, A. L. (1999). Maturation of Gait Dynamics: Stride-to-Stride Variability and Its Temporal Organization in Children. Journal of Applied Physiology, 86, 1040–1047.

Please also include the standard citation for PhysioNet:
Goldberger, A., Amaral, L., Glass, L., Hausdorff, J., Ivanov, P. C., Mark, R., ... & Stanley, H. E. (2000). PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: Components of a new research resource for complex physiologic signals. Circulation [Online], 101(23), e215–e220.

Data Description

The dataset includes gait data from 50 healthy children, aged between 40 and 163 months. Each data file is named using a subject identifier and the subject's age in months (e.g., 2-45.txt corresponds to subject #2, who is 45 months old).

Each file contains two columns:

• Time (in seconds)
• Stride interval (in seconds), i.e., the gait cycle duration measured from heel strike to heel strike of the same foot

A summary of pertinent subject data is available in the table.csv file.

For further details, refer to the original paper listed above.