A method of and apparatus (10) for providing a personalized audio-visual
instructional aid for assisting a person (11) to emulate preferred
positions and/or movements in undertaking an activity by capturing
position and/or movement data of the person (11) or an object associated
with and controlled by the person undertaking the activity using position
and/or movement sensing devices such as MEMS sensors (13) on the person
(11) or object and using a computer (16) to analyze and compare the
captured data with pre-stored data relating to preferred positions and/or
movement in undertaking the activity and generating a visual presentation
(19) based on the differences between the captured position and/or
movement of the person or object and the preferred positions and/or
movement and adding to the generated visual presentation, audio
instructional comments relating to the differences.