Preliminary study on gait analysis among children

Research on gait is increasing among researchers and got worldwide attention. In order to explore and inspect the nature of variables and as part ongoing research in gait studies among children, this paper presents preliminary study of gait which is involved of analyses of several factors i.e. speed, gait cycle and leg length of male and female children. The analysis is performed using statistical techniques; boxplot, correlation and several plots which are done via SPSS software. The results show that there is significant differences between male and female for the variable walking speed, gait cycle duration and leg length. Therefore, in order to characterize human behavior, the walking speed, gait cycle duration and leg length are important parameters.