User Interface (UI) researcher
designed a program to predict role posture may play in reducing head, neck
injuries. Studies have shown that awkward head-neck postures inside whole-body
vibration environments can increase discomfort and the risk of injury. The goal
of this research is to introduce a computerized human model that can be used to
predict human motion in response to whole-body vibration when the human takes
different head-neck postures.
The predicted motion data of the
current model can be used to drive more sophisticated computer human
models—with muscles and internal tissues—that can predict muscle forces and
internal strain and stress between tissues and vertebrae. Significantly, the
computer program may reduce the need for actual human subjects to drive test
vehicles. One major benefit is the possibility of using it instead of humans in
the design/modification loop of equipment in whole-body vibration.
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