Data for "Investigating psychosocial stress arising from marker-based optical motion capture and subsequent effects on gait"

This dataset contains study data from 39 participants who participanted in a gait experiment. The goal of the study was to assess whether optical motion capture, which requires participants to wear little clothing and includes physical touch by the examiner, leads to stress among the participants and to potential alterations in their gait pattern. The folder includes salivary cortisol data, the questionaire codebooks and results, processed pose estimation trajectories from video recordings from the sagittal plane (gait_pose_estimation), kinematics and stride times computed from the pose estimation trajectories, and ground reaction force data (gait-GRFs). The study was approved by the ethical committee of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Re.-No. 22-437-B) and conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. The data can be used and loaded using our repository: https://github.com/empkins/stressgait-analysis. The path to the Data Folder needs to be added in the config.json file. This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – SFB 1483 – Project-ID 442419336, EmpkinS.