2022-09
IRCOBI: Passenger Head Locations
At the annual IRCOBI conference in Porto, I presented two short communications based on our work in the Biosciences group. Using data from two…
method · Laboratory Biomechanics
Volunteer testing
17 posts
2021-03
Effects of Pre-Crash Vehicle Motion on Occupant Posture
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
Head and Face Model with Accurate Scalp
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
Recent Publications: Belt Fit, Human Body Models
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
2019-09
Protecting Passengers in Highly Reclined Postures: Volunteer and Simulation Studies
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
Parametric Human Body Modeling to Address Occupant Protection for Populations
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
SAE Congress Presentations
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
Research Related to Automated Vehicles
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
2018-08
Reclined Postures
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
SAE Congress: Driver Upper Extremities, Crash Protection in Military Vehicles, Packaging for Automated Vehicles
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
2017-04
Upper-Extremity Activities in Driving
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
Stapp Car Crash Conference: Subject-Specific Validation of Parametric Human Body Models
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
Biomechanics Workshop: Anthropometric Targets for ATDs, Passenger Responses
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
Digital Human Modeling Conference: Body Shape and Morphed Human Body Models
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
Effects of Obesity on Crash Protection
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
2012-09
Older Occupant Posture, Body Shape and Belt Fit
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
2010-01
Digital Human Modeling Symposium
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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