LAB:SYNC Director Aston McCullough Presents Innovative Research at National HBCU Week Conference

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Assistant Professor of Dance Science Aston K. McCullough, who directs the Laboratory for the Scientific Study of Dance (LAB:SYNC), recently presented on research innovations that are in development among current NEA Research Labs at the 2022 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week Conference.

LAB:SYNC is supported in part by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Research Lab award to the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

LAB:SYNC, a biobehavioral research lab, is the nation’s first NEA Research Lab to focus on the relationship between dance exposures and health outcomes in adults.

As the highlight of his talk, McCullough presented algorithms and software that he has been developing at LAB:SYNC. These algorithms and software process data from wearable sensors and various types of cameras, allowing users to accurately quantify and characterize dance behavior relative to physiological measures and qualitative features.

“The LAB:SYNC team is thrilled to share these new software applications, and is eager to continue developing extensions for them following their upcoming launch,” says McCullough.

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