The UrbanSim project provides a case study in digital Government, and this article examines progress to date in developing and applying the system in a range of metropolitan areas. digital Government is meant here in ...
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The UrbanSim project provides a case study in digital Government, and this article examines progress to date in developing and applying the system in a range of metropolitan areas. digital Government is meant here in the context of an innovative, cross-cutting initiative of the National Science Foundation. The project integrates academic research on urban simulation modeling and policy evaluation with research on human-computer interaction and software engineering, and uses a value-sensitive design to ensure that the system addresses the needs of governments and citizens. This article addresses the importance of the problem domain and the project objectives, presents a range of challenges, and outlines the design and application of UrbanSim in response to these. It discusses issues arising in the application of the model in the Salt Lake City metropolitan region, where a lawsuit over a highway project has precipitated use of UrbanSim to assess the interactions of transportation, land use, and environmental outcomes, and concludes with an assessment and directions for future research.
In addition to three main commercial human models (Ramsis, Jack, Safework), there exists also many non-commercial ones used in research laboratories. Sometimes, it becomes necessary to convert motion data from one mod...
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The ideal of the golf sport industry is the unique matching of golf player and golf club, thereby providing an optimized golf club design based on the player's skill and ability. A review of available literature s...
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Vehicle operators are required to perform a variety of reaching tasks while the vehicle is in motion. The vibration transmitted from the terrain-vehicle coupling can prevent the operator from successfully completing t...
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The evaluation of maintenance tasks is increasingly important in the design and redesign of many industrial operations including vehicles. The weight of subsystems can be extreme and often tools are developed to abate...
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In this paper, a three-dimensional human-head model was developed using the VOXEL approach. The human-head VOXEL model is based on 433 scanned images (512 × 512 pixels) taken by CT (Computed Tomography). The prec...
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Optimizing protection for side impact in vehicle design requires valid information about occupant behavior under lateral loading. For this reason a comparison of numerical models of dummies and human body in side impa...
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This paper presents a simulation aided approach for designing organizational structures in manufacturing systems. The approach is based on a detailed modeling and characterization of the forecasted order program, espe...
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This paper presents a simulation aided approach for designing organizational structures in manufacturing systems. The approach is based on a detailed modeling and characterization of the forecasted order program, especially of elementary processes, activity networks and manufacturing orders. Under the use of the organization modeling system FORM, that has been developed at the ifab-Institute of human and Industrial engineering of the University of Karlsruhe, structuring strategies-e.g., a process-oriented strategy can be applied in order to design organizational structures in manufacturing systems in a flexible and efficient way. Following that, a dynamical analysis of the created manufacturing structures can be carried out with the simulation tool FEMOS, that has also been developed at the ifab-Institute. The evaluation module of FEMOS enables to measure the designed solutions with the help of logistical-e.g., lead time degree and organizational-e.g., degree of autonomy key data. This evaluation is the basis for the identification of effective manufacturing systems and also of improvement potentialities. Finally, a case study is presented in this paper designing and analyzing different organizational structures of a manufacturing system where gear boxes and robot grip arms were manufactured.
The anatomical landmarks on the body surface are important to shape and motion analysis. This paper presents a method for extracting anatomical landmarks on the foot from scattered 3D surface points collected by FastS...
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To describe feelings of discomfort while sitting, many experiments have been conducted to find a link between interface pressure on the seat and the feelings of discomfort of test subjects. Most of these experiments f...
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