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Laying out interiors so that the people who use them fit, reach, see, and are comfortable.
42 posts
2026-05
I gave a brief presentation to auto industry colleagues at a meeting of the semi-annual Seat Comfort Tech Club. This informal group of researchers and…
Passenger cars and light trucks Seating Statistical shape models+3
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
2025-09
At the IRCOBI conference this month my colleague Kyle Boyle presented a paperon the development of a parametric finite-element model of a generic…
Occupant protection Passenger cars and light trucks Parametric finite-element human body models+3
2024-11
My colleague Dr. Daniel Park has been leading work on our fast, efficient PassFit human measurement system. We recently published a paper in Sensors…
Military vehicles Design and analysis tools Anthropometric Surveys and Population Data+1
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
2022-09
At the annual IRCOBI conference in Porto, I presented two short communications based on our work in the Biosciences group. Using data from two…
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
2021-10
Our 3D anthropometry team, including my colleages Dr. Daniel Park andDr. Monica Jones, have published the first whole-body parametric human body model…
Vehicle Interior Design Occupant protection ATD design and evaluation+4
2021-06
My colleagues Kyle Boyle, Nikki Orton, and Jingwen Hu recently published a paper describing new research aimed at improving crash protection for…
Military vehicles Occupant protection Impact and sled testing+1
2020-10
At the AAAM conference this month, I presented an overview of findings from the first large-scale study of road vehicle passenger behavior. This was…
Occupant protection Seating Posture and Motion Measurement+2
2020-01
I gave a talk at the SAE Government/Industry meeting in DC this month highlighting preliminary results from a large-scale study of passenger behavior.…
2019-07
I gave a presentation this month at the IQPC Seating Innovations conference in Canton, MI. This annual event draws engineers and designers from across…
Heavy trucks and buses Automotive industry Automated vehicles
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…
2018-09
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
2018-08
I gave an invited talk at the 12th Annual IQPC Seating Innovation Summit on safety considerations in the design of future automated road vehicles. I…
Injury Prevention and Safety in Dynamic Events Vehicle Interior Design Automated vehicles+2
2018-08
I recently completed a small study for General Motors examining the distribution of knee contours. The possibility of inadvertent activation of…
Vehicle Interior Design 3D surface scanning Motion capture and landmark digitizing+1
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
2017-06
A new paper on our work modeling child body shape has appeared in Traffic Injury Prevention. My colleague Dr. Daniel Park led the development of the…
2017-04
The Biosciences Group was well represented at the SAE Congress this month. My colleagues presented three papers on a range of topics. Jones, M.L.H.…
Occupant protection Passenger cars and light trucks Seating+5
2017-01
My colleagues Dr. Lauren Zaseck and Dr, Jingwen Hu have led thepublication of recent work aimed at improving crash protection for soldiers. Vehicle…
Occupant protection ATD design and evaluation Military vehicles+2
2016-07
I'm honored to have been named the Don B. Chaffin Collegiate Research Professor by approval of the U-M Board of Regents. The Collegiate Research…
Injury Prevention and Safety in Dynamic Events Vehicle Interior Design Army and ground forces+1
2016-06
My colleague Dr. Jingwen Hu led a case-study presentation at the annual review meeting of the Automotive Research Center, an Army funded center of…
Occupant protection Military vehicles Impact and sled testing+1
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
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
2014-11
I presented a short communication at the 2014 IRCOBI conference in Berlin this month addressing driver knee locations. In modern vehicles, the…
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
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
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
I gave a briefing at the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center this month on our Seated Soldier Study. In close…
Military vehicles 3D surface scanning Army and ground forces
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…
2014-01
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to present an overview of our research on tactical vehicle occupant protection at the U.S. Military Academy at…
2013-04
Driver preference for fore-aft steering wheel position has not previously been addressed directly in the SAE literature. We analyzed data from a…
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
2012-05
We've just completed development of anthropometric specifications for the Army's new WIAMan blast dummy. The new anthropomorphic test device (ATD)…
ATD design and evaluation Military vehicles Army and ground forces
2011-07
We are conducting a major study of child posture and body shape. This is the first study to gather three-dimensional data on child posture in…
Occupant protection Passenger cars and light trucks 3D surface scanning+1
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
2009-12
Truck driving is among the most dangerous occupationsin the U.S. Crashes are not the main cause of injury, though: Most occupational injuries to truck…
Heavy trucks and buses Ingress, egress, and falls Motion capture and landmark digitizing
2003-03
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) amended Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 202 to require higher and…
Occupant protection Seating Posture and Motion Measurement+2
Nothing matches that combination.