About the Authors

Jeongin Moon

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeongin Moon, Prabhat Pathak

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Physical Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Prabhat Pathak

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeongin Moon, Prabhat Pathak

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Physical Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Sudeok Kim

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Physical Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Se-gon Roh

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation Robot Center in Samsung Seoul R&D Campus, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul, Republic of Korea

Changhyun Roh

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation WI Robotics, Suwon, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea

Youngbo Shim

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation T-Robotics, Osan, Gyenggi, Republic of Korea

Jooeun Ahn

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ahnjooeun@snu.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Physical Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Institute of Sport Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

JM, PP, SR, CR, YS, and JA are inventors of two patents (10-2019-0118121 and 10-2019-0170835), which were applied to Korean Intellectual Property Office by SNU R&DB Foundation. The active insole shoes used in this study were developed by the Samsung Electronics, which employs SR. These shoes might be commercialized in the future. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.