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Products worn on or fitted to the body, where fit decides comfort and performance.
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2026-09
The initial overview journal article from YouthShape.US has been published. We are proud to be wrapping up the largest and most comprehensive…
Design of Consumer Products including Wearables 3D surface scanning Anthropometric Surveys and Population Data+1
2026-03
My colleague Matt Parkinson and I have just published a paper that supports our efforts to improve the quality of anthropometric data for children.…
Design of Consumer Products including Wearables Survey design and data collection Sampling, weighting, and synthesis+2
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
2025-11
At the SAFE Symposium this month I presented an overview of some of our head/face related research. The current focus of the effort is the development…
Head- and face-worn devices Statistical shape models Medical imaging and skeletal geometry+1
2025-10
We launched the home website for YouthShape.US this month. This is the first large-scale, publicly accessible anthropometric study of U.S. children in…
Design of Consumer Products including Wearables Survey design and data collection Sampling, weighting, and synthesis+3
2025-08
Our journal publication on the first iteration of our U.S. adult ear model appeared in International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. This is the…
Ear and hearing devices Design of Consumer Products including Wearables Medical imaging and skeletal geometry+2
2025-07
We're proud of the work we're doing with Gentex and the U.S. Navy supporting the development of new oxygen masks for U.S. and NATO fighter pilots.…
Head- and face-worn devices Statistical shape models Medical imaging and skeletal geometry+1
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
2024-08
We continue to make progress on many areas of our research, including our YouthShape anthropometry survey of children ages 3-17 years (now over 550…
Head- and face-worn devices Medical imaging and skeletal geometry Survey design and data collection+3
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
2024-01
At the SAE Government/Industry meeting this month I had the opportunity to give an overview of our occupant anthropometry research, including a…
Ear and hearing devices Medical imaging and skeletal geometry Survey design and data collection+6
2023-06
We have been exceptionally busy even by our normally crazy standards. But we're fortunate to be able to do studies that will have major impact in…
Heavy trucks and buses Ear and hearing devices Chairs and furniture+5
2023-01
A few updates on some of many projects my colleagues and I are currently working on: Female Body Armor Fit We're wrapping up a study for the U.S. Army…
Ear and hearing devices Military vehicles 3D surface scanning+2
2022-10
At the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting this month, I presented a paper in an occupational ergonomics sesssion on some playing…
Hand tools and protection Motion capture and landmark digitizing Digital human models and manikins+1
2020-09
My colleague Dr. Daniel Park has just published a new head/face surface model that is one of only two we are aware of that includes a realistic scalp…
Head- and face-worn devices 3D surface scanning Statistical shape models+6
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
2017-10
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
2017-07
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
2015-02
My collaborator Matt Parkinson, his student Brian Pagano, and I have just publishedthe first updated assessment of U.S. child anthroometry in a…
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…
2011-05
Digital human modeling for ergonomics applications is the focus of my research in the Center for Ergonomics. The research I direct in the Human Motion…
Hand tools and protection Workplace and assembly design Digital human models and manikins
2011-03
Three-dimensional anthropometry is a part of many of my current research projects. Using data from UMTRI's whole-body laser scanner, medical imaging…
Chairs and furniture ATD design and evaluation 3D surface scanning+2
2010-08
The design of truck and off-highway equipment cabs (agriculture, construction, mining, and forestry) is becoming more complex due to the increase in…
Heavy trucks and buses Hand tools and protection Motion capture and landmark digitizing+1
Nothing matches that combination.