WIDE is built around questions.
Questions about how human movement changes, how useful possibilities emerge and disappear, and what those changes may tell us.
From movement to possibility.
Much movement assessment focuses on whether a particular movement can be performed and how closely it resembles an expected pattern. Those questions can be useful. WIDE asks additional ones.
How easily can the person move between them?
Which remain available when context changes?
What does a particular experience leave behind?
Movement is contextual.
Movement emerges from relationships among the person, the task and the environment.
The same anatomical capacity does not necessarily produce the same real-world possibility in every situation.
Variability can contain information.
Variation is not automatically error. Different solutions can allow a person to preserve the thing that matters when circumstances change.
WIDE is interested in when variability reflects useful adaptability, when possibilities appear to be narrowing, and how a person moves between different solutions.
Agency matters.
WIDE is not being developed around a model in which the system identifies the correct movement and directs the person toward it.
A WIDE interaction can remain with what is already happening or make another possibility available.
The person's response contributes evidence. It also contributes direction.
From snapshot to trajectory.
Repeated observations may reveal whether useful possibilities are emerging, persisting, becoming easier to access, becoming more resilient, becoming more costly, or narrowing.
WIDE is investigating whether these trajectories can support better questions about what may become available next.
We regard this as a research question, not a licence to make deterministic predictions about somebody's future.
Research status.
WIDE brings together ideas from movement science, rehabilitation, motor learning, perception, action observation, imagery, human–environment interaction and music.
Some of these underlying areas have substantial existing research. WIDE as an integrated system is new and requires its own evaluation.
We therefore distinguish between what existing science supports, what WIDE currently observes, what WIDE infers and what remains a hypothesis to test.
Measure quietly. Return understanding clearly.
Collaboration
We are interested in thoughtful collaboration with researchers, clinicians, movement scientists, musicians, designers and organisations working on meaningful human participation.