Hi, welcome to my website. My name is Adam Noah.
I currently live in New York City. I am currently interested in motion capture technology and how it can be used for both entertainment and science. I am working with and learning the software to create animations and to analyze full body kinematics and kinetics. I use a Vicon Nexus based MoCap system for both fields. While Nexus does most of the work for science, Motionbuilder, Maya, Lightwave and some others are the programs I use for animation.
Previously to my current post, I was a post doctoral fellow working at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. My research focused on motor control. I was working on two projects. The goal of the first project was to determine if the neural network controlling respiration is affected by locomotory behavior in human infants under 12 months of age. This project was funded through a NRSA fellowship from The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). I am still also working on a larger project to characterize crawling in infants. This project is a collaboration between my advisor, Jaynie Yang, Susan Patrick, and myself.
Previous to living in Canada, I lived, went to school, worked and generally spent most of my time in West Virginia. For those of you that haven’t been to that part of the world, no its not near Richmond or Virginia Beach. West Virginia is a beautiful state just West of Virginia. I attended Marshall University for both my Master’s Degree and my PhD. For my doctorate, I worked with Sasha Zill at the School of Medicine studying the role of load detecting sense organs in generation of locomotion in insects. More information on this and my other research is available here.
I will update this website periodically, as I feel the need. There is also links above to my animations, some photos, my webcam and some of the things I do in my spare time. If you would like to contact me please email me at j.adam.noah@gmail.com.