🏃 Research
Running Biomechanics & Footwear
Overview
Shoes change how you run — for better or worse. This thread looks at how footwear and running form interact to shape performance and injury risk, including the biomechanical evidence behind "super shoes" that I've discussed in national media, and how personalized, 3D/4D-printed soles could correct gait issues like mild flatfoot.
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Methodology
- Motion capture and inverse dynamic analysis of foot-strike pattern and footwear conditions in recreational and habitual runners.
- Quantification of injury-risk indices for technologically advanced ("super") running shoes.
- 4D-printed meta-material footwear soles: quantifying how sole-stiffness differences affect center of pressure and lower-limb joint angles for mild flatfoot correction, using pedobarography.
- Computer vision on smartphone video to estimate running biomechanics and flag injury risk without dedicated motion-capture hardware.
Selected Outputs
- Technologically Advanced Running Shoes Reduce Indices of Injury Risk — Scientific Reports, 2025.
- A Multidisciplinary Review on Footwear 3D Printing: From Biomechanics to Therapeutics — International Journal of Bioprinting, 2025.
- 4D Printing of Mechanical Meta-Material Footwear Soles for Gait Function Augmentation and Foot Disorder Treatment — Senior Researcher, Seoul National University, 2021.8–2024.8.
- Developing a Running Pattern Solution for Amateur Runners — Senior Researcher, Samsung Electronics, 2025.3–2025.8.
- The Effects of Habitual Foot Strike Pattern and Footwear on Running Pattern and Economy — ISB, 2023.