Appointment: Professor John Rasmussen 

Congratulations to Dr. John Rasmussen, head of the AnyBody Research Project. John has been appointed full professor of biomechanics at Aalborg University.
John will deliver his inagural lecture Biomechanics and Computer-Aided Ergonomics on March 23.

John has kindly agreed to repeat the lecture in English in a webcast April 12.

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Events: Meet AnyBody at...

19-21 March: DCAMM Symposium, Silkeborg, Denmark.
John Rasmussen will present: Can AnyBody do the limbo?. Michael Skipper Andersen will present: Numerical Modeling of Kinematical Over- and Under-determinate Musculoskeletal Systems.

29 March: SafetyWeek, Aschaffenburg, Germany.
Arne Kiis will present: Opportunities for musculoskeletal modeling in automotive safety (with Maren Finck, carhs GmbH)

30 March: Multiscale Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
John Rasmussen will give a keynote lecture: Scaling and validation of inverse dynamics musculoskeletal models.

19-20 April: Training Workshop, Munich, Germany

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Upcoming webcast 

Previous webcasts

Several previous webcasts have been recorded and are now available for download and replay. Recent ones are

• Kinematic Analysis of Over-determinate Systems
• Scaling strength in human simulation models
• A generic detailed rigid-body lumbar spine model
• The Seated Human

HUMOSIM: Motion dynamics does matter for ergonomic analysis

David Wagner, Matthew Reed, and coworkers at the Human Motion Simulation Laboratory at University of Michigan, have a large database, HUMOSIM, of ergonomic experiments. The first results of modeling these in AnyBody demonstrate both the feasibility and utility of inverse dynamics for ergonomic applications, in particular for inclusion of dynamic effects in the analysis.

HUMOSIM-AnyBody model
(Click to view the video; 3 Mb)

The model estimates of low-back stresses, in particular, were substantially higher when considering inertial effects.

David will be presenting  Assessing the importance of motion dynamics for ergonomic analysis of material handling tasks using the AnyBody Modeling System (coauthored by Matt Reed and John Rasmussen) at the Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Conference and Exhibition in Seattle in June.

INDEX:AWARD - Design to Improve Life

Out of 340 designs nominated by the world's leading design institutions, the jury has shortlisted 112 top nominated products and services that meet the INDEX: requirement of Design to Improve Life. The AnyBody Modeling System is one of them! The top nominated designs were selected by celebrated international design professionals representing, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, the World Economic Forum, IDEO and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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Sincerely
The AnyBody Team.