Research
What does changing possibility tell us?
WIDE is interested in movement as a changing field of meaningful possibilities — and in whether those changes can become useful evidence through time.
Movement Possibility Window
WIDE uses this public term for the changing field of meaningful movement possibilities available to a person under particular conditions and through time. It is not simply range of motion, a mobility score or a fixed capacity.
The term names a research idea. The public website does not describe proprietary construction, algorithms or feature selection.
Trajectory before prognosis.
WIDE distinguishes what appears available now from how that availability appears to change across observations. That changing pattern can be described as trajectory.
Possibility changes → those changes form a trajectory → trajectory may become useful evidence → prognostic value remains an open research question.
WIDE does not currently predict an individual's recovery.
What widens, narrows, persists or disappears under different demands and conditions?
How should delayed cost, recovery and the rest of the person's available activity be represented?
When does variation reveal adaptability rather than error?
How does what just happened alter the possibilities available at the next attempt?
Can repeated observations reveal robust change before simple task completion changes?
Could validated patterns of changing possibility eventually contribute useful information about what happens next?
Evidence discipline
Ambition and uncertainty can coexist.
WIDE separates established evidence, WIDE observations, hypotheses, current development and future research questions. A public claim should not become stronger merely because the underlying technology is ambitious.
Important
Nothing on this site should be read as a diagnosis, a guarantee of improvement or a validated individual prognosis.