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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Accid Anal Prev. 2011 Mar 24;43(4):1480–1487. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.02.028

Table 2.

Mean (SD) of the minimum margin of safety (MMOS) and displacement rate outcomes for centre-of-mass (COM) and centre-of-pressure (COP) across floor conditions for the backwards floor translation task.

Parameter Floor condition
Rigid SmartCell SofTile Firm-Foam Soft-Foam
Margin of safety (m)
MMOSCOM 0.058 (0.013) 0.062 (0.010) 0.051 (0.013) 0.027 (0.013) 0.044 (0.010)
MMOSCOP 0.026 (0.008) 0.030 (0.007) 0.021 (0.012) 0.017 (0.014) 0.019 (0.011)
Relative rates (m/s)
COM0–20% 0.185 (0.014) 0.182 (0.014) 0.195 (0.014) 0.193 (0.041) 0.189 (0.022)
COM20–40% 0.267 (0.047) 0.279 (0.037) 0.270 (0.040) 0.199 (0.070) 0.242 (0.049)
COM40–60% 0.116 (0.036) 0.132 (0.060) 0.113 (0.043) 0.076 (0.030) 0.077 (0.021)
COM60–80% 0.096 (0.015) 0.091 (0.018) 0.096 (0.020) 0.067 (0.025) 0.078 (0.019)
COM80–100% 0.048 (0.010) 0.046 (0.012) 0.044 (0.008) 0.034 (0.006) 0.041 (0.019)
COP0–20% 0.217 (0.030) 0.237 (0.026) 0.291 (0.038) 0.238 (0.053) 0.273 (0.021)
COP20–40% 0.541 (0.073) 0.542 (0.074) 0.560 (0.089) 0.457 (0.099) 0.538 (0.086)
COP40–60% 0.566 (0.091) 0.546 (0.090) 0.495 (0.072) 0.288 (0.061) 0.309 (0.109)
COP60–80% 0.471 (0.097) 0.464 (0.100) 0.401 (0.087) 0.306 (0.054) 0.319 (0.177)
COP80–100% 0.134 (0.066) 0.154 (0.067) 0.145 (0.066) 0.102(0.056) 0.182 (0.115)
Absolute rates (m/s)
COM0–2 cm 0.220 (0.007) 0.220 (0.006) 0.226 (0.009) 0.222 (0.019) 0.223 (0.008)
COM2–4 cm 0.104 (0.012) 0.100 (0.015) 0.112 (0.014) 0.090 (0.012) 0.084 (0.015)
COP0–2 cm 0.213 (0.032) 0.227 (0.026) 0.268 (0.034) 0.241 (0.028) 0.266 (0.029)
COP2–4 cm 0.525 (0.061) 0.538 (0.074) 0.571 (0.088) 0.460 (0.071) 0.608 (0.154)
COP4–6 cm 0.567 (0.092) 0.553 (0.085) 0.499 (0.056) 0.304 (0.064) 0.330 (0.119)
COP6–8 cm 0.481 (0.136) 0.490 (0.102) 0.462 (0.093) 0.301 (0.039) 0.251 (0.087)