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This page showcases our recent design projects, which tackle various product design and development challenges with a particular focus on incorporating human factors in early-stage design. The projects present various research directions, including artificial intelligence, digital twins, anthropometry, collaborative design, human performance modeling, and immersive prototyping.
Click on each project to explore its theoretical and practical contributions, as well as the related publications.
Research: Artificial Intelligence
Application: Product Design
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Artificial Intelligence
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Generative Design
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Concept Generation and Evaluation
This research introduces collaborative efforts o formulating a human-centered generative design framework that injects human factors early in the design for quick-and-dirty concept creation and evaluation.
Research: Digital Twins
Application: Consumer Goods
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Digital Twin
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Prototyping
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User Data Collection
This study presents how digital-twin bridges engineering and business decision-making. It illustrates the biomechanic benefits of adding a pedestal to a washing machine from engineering and industrial design perspectives, enabling more robust decision-making.
Research: Anthropometry
Application: Healthcare
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Virtual Reality
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Motion Capture
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Force Feedback
This study introduces a tactile force feedback mechanism inside the virtual product development cycle to incorporate users' ergonomic attributes early in the design process. The design application focuses on a user-friendly, lightweight code cart to accommodate the needs and limitations of nurses from different anthropometric backgrounds.
Research: Collaborative Design
Application: Mass Customization
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Collaborative design
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Mixed Reality
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Product Individualization
The Digital Co-Creation framework utilizes common functional product bases, modular add-ons, and digital tools, enabling customers to participate in product design directly. It illustrates a conceptual design that enables direct customer designer integration, allowing information regarding product design to be visualized and modified in both ways.
Research: Human Performance Model
Application: Aviation
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Task Automation
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Safety Engineering
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Smoke and Fire
This research introduces a digital human modeling (DHM) based early design approach to automate task analysis during emergencies. It provides a proof-of-concept demonstration of the automation framework within the context of the cockpit fire and smoke case study.
Research: Immersive Prototyping
Application: Vehicle Design
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Parametric and Surface Modeling
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Digital Human Modeling
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CAVE - Automatic Virtual Environment
The study illustrates a conceptual vehicle packaging study focusing on developing a Formula-1 (F1) race car monocoque safety cell. The F1 model, including the monocoque chassis and the manikin representing the driver, uses an integrated digital prototyping approach to assess drivers’ comfort based on joint angles.
