Rachel Hawe, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the NeuroRehabilitation Across the Lifespan (NeuRAL) Laboratory, and Stephen Guy, PhD, associate professor in Computer Science and Engineering, received a $77,000 seed grant from the UMN Data Science Initiative. Their project, titled “Data-driven Metrics for Upper-Limb Motor Assessment in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders” aims to leverage modern advances in informatics, data science, and computer vision to establish novel, data-driven techniques for analyzing and assessing upper limb movements. The project will include expanding their data set of reaching strategies in typically developing children collected using markerless motion capture and augment reality games at the State Fair, and applying their analysis to three clinical populations- cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder, and developmental coordination disorder. The overall goal of this work is to enable the identification of specific motor impairments, which will facilitate the diagnosis of movement limitations, inform personalized rehabilitation, and lead to improved outcomes.