The Environment & Ergonomics Research Group focuses on how to minimize the impact of the built environment on the natural environment. Humans are the bridge between these two worlds and it is human activity that has created every environmental problem from factory farms destroying local environments to factory cities destroying global environments.
As a leader in the development of software used to design a significant percentage of every man-made object in the world, we feel a responsibility to help architects, designers, and engineers create better, longer lasting, less wasteful, more useful and usable objects, devices, structures, and infrastructures.
To this end, we examine ergonomics as well as architecture and urban design. We take a community-based approach and work towards enabling and empowering research scientists around the world studying these areas. Working with our academic and industrial partners, our hybrid group focuses on modeling, simulation, and visualization of virtual 3D designs of spaces and objects. We explore both the outside and the inside of human interaction: with modeling and simulation of architecture and urban design, as well as multiscale human modeling and simulation.
Designing user interfaces for interacting with 3D data involves a number of factors that are not found in traditional 2D interfaces. In this project, we explore subtle yet critical aspects of 3D control and feedback. A number of research outcomes have been integrated into several Autodesk products and we continue to explore this complex area.
This project touches on a broad range of architectural and sustainability concepts, tools, and workflows. A common thread is the development of techniques to help users express constraints and to design emergent behaviour.
We are developing an advanced multiscale parametric digital human biomechanical model. A number of global virtual human initiatives are underway, but these efforts focus on medical applications, while our purposes are to support advanced digital ergonomics. As such, we start from the anatomical level and work towards sub-anatomical structures, only as they affect biomechanics.
Embedded Rationality: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Form-Finding (2010)
Customizing the Behavior of Interacting Occupants using Personas (2010)
Toward a unified representation system of performance-related data (2010)
Schedule-Calibrated Occupant Behavior Simulation (2010)
210 King Street: A Dataset for Integrated Performance Assessment (2010)
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