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Using population data to decide who a design fits and who it excludes.
30 posts
2026-03
I attended theBiomechanics and Engineering Anthropometry (BEAM) 2026 meeting in Dayton, Ohio, this week. This was the 2nd of what I hope will be a…
Military vehicles Accommodation models Design and analysis tools+1
2026-03
Our first journal article based on the YouthShape.US anthropometry study has appeared! We are delighted that this outstanding work led by our post-doc…
Footwear Statistical shape models Survey design and data collection+5
2026-02
We are excited to publicly launch HumanShape.app, a radical new approach to anthropometric analysis for design. The field of applied anthropometry is…
Head- and face-worn devices Ear and hearing devices Footwear+9
2026-01
We continue to make rapid progress on YouthShape.US, the first large-scale, publicly accessible anthropometric survey of U.S. children since the…
Statistical shape models Survey design and data collection Sampling, weighting, and synthesis+4
2025-02
The application of human body measurement to design has been stuck in the 1950s since, well, the 1950s. Nearly all applications of anthropometric data…
Design of Consumer Products including Wearables Sampling, weighting, and synthesis Accommodation models
2024-03
Our colleagues at SENTIR Research Labs in Dayton hosted the inaugural Biomechanics and Engineering Anthropometry Meeting (BEAM) this month. This…
Head- and face-worn devices Ear and hearing devices Medical imaging and skeletal geometry+2
2022-06
I'm very proud of the research program that we're leading for the U.S. Army that is creating a modern suite of tools for human-centered design of…
Military vehicles Accommodation models Army and ground forces
2021-01
Our human modeling team, led by Dr. Jingwen Hu, published another paper documenting our application of parametric human body modeling to improving…
Occupant protection Injury risk and tolerance Parametric finite-element human body models+4
2018-10
Our group presented three papers at the triennial International Ergonomics Association conference in Florence. Dr. Monica Jones presented preliminary…
2018-09
Since 2012, we have been working with the U.S. Army TARDEC on a set of new tools for vehicle interior design. Our goal is to use extensive data on…
Military vehicles Accommodation models Army and ground forces
2018-04
Our group was well represented at the SAE International World Congress this year. Pleasecontact me if you'd like copies of any of these papers. Reed…
Occupant protection Passenger cars and light trucks Hand tools and protection+10
2017-11
Our group was well represented at the annual European meeting of theInternational Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury. We presented two…
Occupant protection Injury risk and tolerance Statistical shape models+7
2017-10
I attended the annual conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in Austin, TX this month.Justin Haney, a PhD student working with advisor…
Design of Consumer Products including Wearables Virtual fit testing Body Shape Measurement and Modeling+1
2017-08
We've gathered a large set of data on the responses of front-seat passengers to unexpected hard braking and other abrupt vehicle maneuvers. These data…
Occupant protection Injury Prevention and Safety in Dynamic Events Motion capture and landmark digitizing+4
2017-07
My colleagues Dr. Monica Jones and Dr. Daniel Park represented our group at the International Digital Human Modeling Symposium in Bonn, Germany this…
Occupant protection Statistical shape models Digital human models and manikins+2
2017-07
My colleague Dr. Daniel Park and I recently completed a research project for the U.S. Army that tackled an array of cutting-edge problems relating to…
Design of Consumer Products including Wearables Statistical shape models Virtual fit testing+2
2016-06
I joined my UMTRI colleagues Dr. Monica Jones and Dr. Daniel Park at the Digital Human Modeling Conference in Montreal. Our hosts at ÉTS did a…
Occupant protection 3D surface scanning Statistical shape models+6
2016-04
The Biosciences Group had a big presence at the SAE Congress in Detroit this month. We presented research on a broad range of topics from seat shape…
Occupant protection Heavy trucks and buses Military vehicles+9
2016-02
Anthropometric data on children are scarce, and anthropometric data on toddlers and infants are even more rare. My colleagues and I just wrapped up a…
Occupant protection 3D surface scanning Statistical shape models+3
2014-12
The final report for the Seated Soldier Study conducted by UMTRI for the US Army TARDEC is now available. The report describes the methods and results…
ATD design and evaluation Military vehicles 3D surface scanning+3
2014-09
I presented an update of our virtual seat fit assessment work at the 8th Annual Automotive Seating Innovators Summit in Detroit. This collaboration…
Statistical shape models Sampling, weighting, and synthesis Virtual fit testing+1
2014-05
TheBBC did a great piece on our work over the past few years to improve accommodation and safety for soldiers in vehicles. This work was funded by…
Military vehicles Accommodation models Army and ground forces
2014-05
My colleague Daniel Park presented a paper at the 3rd International Digital Human Modeling Symposium on our work with using Kinect sensors for body…
3D surface scanning Statistical shape models Digital human models and manikins+2
2014-05
Locating body surface landmarks on whole-body scan data is usually a time-consuming manual process. Manual digitizing is the "gold standard"…
3D surface scanning Statistical shape models Motion capture and landmark digitizing+1
2014-05
My colleagues Dr. Monica Jones and Dr. Daniel Park participated in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting in Washington, DC this…
Statistical shape models Virtual fit testing High BMI and obesity
2014-05
I gave a brief presentation at the Midwest meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics this month. Held at Grand Valley State University in…
Statistical shape models Parametric finite-element human body models Virtual fit testing
2014-01
My colleages Gale Zielinkski and Frank Huston from the U.S. Army TARDEC presented some of our joint work at the annual Ground Vehicle Systems…
Military vehicles Head- and face-worn devices Posture prediction models+2
2014-01
We've completed another analysis of data from the Seated Soldier Study aimed at improving the accommodation of warfighters in military vehicles. This…
2013-04
My colleague Jingwen Hu developed a new framework for conducting virtual seat fit testing using a parametric human body model. This work differs from…
Seating Statistical shape models Parametric finite-element human body models+2
2010-01
My colleague Matt Parkinson and I hosted a symposium on digital human modeling in Ann Arbor. We had over 140 participants from 12 countries with…
Digital human models and manikins Volunteer testing Virtual fit testing
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