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SUMMARY:Digital Human Modeling and Simulation for Human-Centric Design - J
 ames Yang\, Ph.D.\, SAE Fellow Associate Professor and Associate Chair Ful
 bright Scholar Ed and Linda Whitacre Faculty Fellow\, Texas Tech Universit
 y
DTSTART:20170821T100000Z
DTEND:20170821T110000Z
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CONTACT:Anna Walczyk
DESCRIPTION:Digital human modeling and simulation plays an important role 
 in product design\, prototyping\, manufacturing\, sports biomechanics\, an
 d other areas. It reduces the number of design iterations and increases th
 e safety and design quality of products. In this talk\, I will first brief
 ly review the state of art of digital human models\, then I will summarize
  research projects carried out in my research lab. The first area is human
 -centric engineering by investigating the optimization-based digital human
  models to assist design and engineering\, slips and falls. Applications i
 nclude driver accommodation study and special population posture and motio
 n prediction. The second area is healthcare engineering by developing nove
 l predictive models to assess personal protective equipment and spine biom
 echanics.
LOCATION:EDC-loft meeting room\, Engineering Design Centre\, CUED
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