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Measuring what bodies can do with volunteers in the laboratory.
28 posts
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
2025-05
Over the past six years, we've completed the world's largest, most thorough survey of functional strength for children ages 12 months through 11…
Strength and capability measurement Design and analysis tools Children and youth+1
2024-10
My colleague Dr. Monica Jones presented a paper at the annual conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society describing the methods for our…
Survey design and data collection Strength and capability measurement Children and youth+1
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
2023-11
Last month at the HFES annual meeting, Dr. Monica Jones presented an overview of our methods for gathering data on child strength. In the past year we…
2022-09
At the annual IRCOBI conference in Porto, I presented two short communications based on our work in the Biosciences group. Using data from two…
2021-03
NHTSA has published our report on the effects of abrupt vehicle maneuvers on front-seat passengers with a wide range of initial postures. In the first…
Motion capture and landmark digitizing Volunteer testing Standards and regulation+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
2020-06
Our group has had a number of recent publications that I think are worth highlighting. Jones, M.L.H., Ebert, S.M., Manary, M.A., Reed, M.P., and…
Occupant protection ATD design and evaluation Injury risk and tolerance+4
2019-11
I was pleased to have the opportunity to give a keynote talk at the NFL's Helmet Challenge Symposium this month. The goal of the Helmet Challenge is…
Injury Prevention and Safety in Dynamic Events Laboratory Biomechanics Injury Biomechanics+1
2019-09
I attended the IRCOBI Conference in Florence this month. My colleague Kyle Boyle presented a paper describing recent simulation studies he conducted…
Occupant protection Injury risk and tolerance Parametric finite-element human body models+4
2019-06
My colleague Dr. Jingwen Hu and I attended the 2019 ESV Conference in Eindhoven this month. Compared with the last ESV conference in 2017, this…
2019-04
Our group was well-represented at the SAE Congress in April. My colleage Dr Monica Jones presented a paper on sensations reported by participants in a…
2019-01
We have many activities underway related to increasingly automated vehicles. Here's an overview of some of the projects. Occupant Postures, Seating…
Occupant protection Passenger cars and light trucks Seating+9
2018-10
Our group presented three papers at the triennial International Ergonomics Association conference in Florence. Dr. Monica Jones presented preliminary…
2018-08
We recently completed a small study of highly reclined passenger postures. Many conceptual designs for future automated vehicles anticipate that…
Occupant protection Volunteer testing Posture and Motion Measurement+3
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
2018-03
My colleagues and I have recently published a number of new journal articles on a range of topics. The influence of pre-existing rib fractures on…
Occupant protection Injury risk and tolerance Parametric finite-element human body models+5
2017-04
We recently completed an interesting study looking at upper-extremity activities in driving. We coded nearly 10k snapshots from videos of over 100…
Injury Prevention and Safety in Dynamic Events Volunteer testing
2016-11
Dr. Eunjoo Hwang, who recently completed a post-doc fellowship in our group at UMTRI, presented a paper at the Stapp Car Crash Conference this month.…
Injury risk and tolerance Parametric finite-element human body models Volunteer testing+1
2016-11
I gave two presentations at the NHTSA-hosted biomechanics workshop preceding the Stapp Car Crash Conference. Developing Anthropometric Targets for…
ATD design and evaluation Statistical shape models Motion capture and landmark digitizing+3
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
2015-04
Analyses of crash data in the field have shown that obese occupants are at higher risk in frontal crashes than occupants of normal weight. Improving…
Occupant protection Parametric finite-element human body models Volunteer testing+1
2014-05
The Automotive Research Center at the University of Michigan held its Annual Review this month, celebrating 20 years of research in modeling and…
Occupant protection Military vehicles Strength and capability measurement+2
2013-10
I gave a short talk at the IRCOBI conference in Gothenburg Sweden last month. My paper focused on our work measuring and modeling seated occupant body…
Parametric finite-element human body models Strength and capability measurement Children and youth+2
2012-09
Presentation from a special session at the Stapp Car Crash Conference in Savannah, Georgia. Recent research, including studies by my colleagues at…
Occupant protection Injury risk and tolerance 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
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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