The lab is equipped mainly for film analysis. Athletes are filmed in the course of their sport activities. The films taken by the cameras are projected, one photograph at a time, onto the surface of a digitizer. The digitized coordinates of body segmental landmarks are then sent through a terminal to files in the hard disk of a computer. These coordinates can then be used as input for other computer programs which may calculate, among other parameters, center of mass location, angular momentum, and joint forces and torques associated with the activity being analyzed.
Software is also available for graphics, on-screen animation and some forms of computer simulation.