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This coordination of the multiple joints of the human body to maintain a stable posture is a subject of research. The number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) of the human motor system is considerably larger than the DOFs required for posture balance. The manner of managing this redundancy by the central nervous system remains unclear. To understand this phenomenon, in this study, three local inter-joint coordination pattern (IJCP) features were introduced to characterize the strength, changing velocity, and complexity of the inter-joint couplings by computing the correlation coefficients between joint velocity signal pairs. In addition, for quantifying the complexity of IJCPs from a global perspective, another set of IJCP features was introduced by performing principal component analysis on all joint velocity signals. A Microsoft Kinect depth sensor was used to acquire the motion of 15 joints of the body. The efficacy of the proposed features was tested using the captured motions of two age groups (18\u201324 and 65\u201373 years) when standing still. With regard to the redundant DOFs of the joints of the body, the experimental results suggested that an inter-joint coordination strategy intermediate to that of the two extreme coordination modes of total joint dependence and independence is used by the body. In addition, comparative statistical results of the proposed features proved that aging increases the coupling strength, decreases the changing velocity, and reduces the complexity of the IJCPs. These results also suggested that with aging, the balance strategy tends to be more joint dependent. 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