Dan Högberg
Professor of Product Design Engineering
School of Engineering Science
Room PA220C
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Research interest
Dan Högberg's research is about making user-centred information, e.g. ergonomics knowledge, relevant and easily available to product designers and engineers. These roles often need design methods and tools that facilitates the consideration of user aspects, along with other product/system requirements, in the complex product or production realisation process. Central in Dan's research is digital human modelling (DHM) (ergonomics simulation) and how such technology can contribute in supporting designers and engineers to proactively consider ergonomics at virtual stages of the development process.
Research
Publications
Projects
2025
Empathic Computing
2025. Article.
https://doi.org/10.70401/ec.2025.0001
Simulation-based multi-objective optimization combined with a DHM tool for occupant packaging design
International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
2025. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ergon.2024.103690
2024
Processes
2024. Article.
https://doi.org/10.3390/pr12122871
The 22nd Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), August 25-29, 2024 ICC JEJU, Republic of Korea
2024. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.
Advanced Engineering Informatics
2024. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2024.102726
Applied Sciences
2024. Article.
https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210736
IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
2024. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1080/24725838.2024.2362726
Integration and Evaluation of a Digital Support Function for Space Claims in Factory Layout Planning
Processes
2024. Article.
https://doi.org/10.3390/pr12112379
Production & Manufacturing Research
2024. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2024.2323484
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Ongoing projects
LITMUS: Enabling the Transition from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0
In the LITMUS project, researchers are exploring how companies can transition from today’s Industry 4.0 to the new Industry 5.0 by smartly utilizing their existing technologies. The goal is to combine efficient production with improved economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
September 2024 - August 2028 Virtual EngineeringVirtual Factories of the Future
Virtual factories with knowledge-driven optimization (VF-KDO) is an eight-year research profile that is being coordinated by the University of Skövde. Research within this profile aims to help strengthen the competitiveness of Swedish industry.
October 2018 - September 2026 Virtual EngineeringPLENUM
The ongoing electrification of the automotive industry will initially lack competence, it is new knowledge that is required to take the automotive industry to the next phase. According to the EC, the loss of skills within the battery cell plants is estimated to be up to 800,000 people until 2025. And even the industry would have enough people, the factories are not yet built, which makes it impossible to train the person on site.
September 2022 - September 2025 Virtual EngineeringFinished projects
Synergy Virtual Ergonomics
The UN sustainability goals and the European and Swedish research agendas describe a need for efficient and effective tools and intervention methods to improve our ability to monitor and prevent disorders and diseases. European and Swedish research agendas also call for efficient digitalisation tools for the design, modelling, simulation, optimisation, visualisation, and forecasting of products and production processes, resources, systems, and factories during their life cycles.
October 2019 - September 2023 Virtual EngineeringVIVA - the Virtual Vehicle Assembler
The objective of the VIVA (the Virtual Vehicle Assembler) project is to perform research and development actions to provide Swedish vehicle industry with an efficient and usable ergonomics simulation (digital human modelling) tool. The tool will support engineers to, already at early stages of design and development processes, make more precise decisions about operators' ergonomics conditions in future workstations.
May 2019 - April 2022 Virtual EngineeringSUMMIT
SUMMIT aims at inviting Swedish industry to use the Virtual Development Laboratory (VDL) at Chalmers to collaborate, develop and show case the true benefits of digitalization. The project focus is on the sustainability, smart maintenance and factory design phases to strengthen Swedish industries.
November 2017 - December 2021 Virtual EngineeringMOSIM
Project vision is an open modular framework for efficient and interactive simulation and analysis of realistic human motions for professional applications. Within the European economy, digital modelling activities and the simulation of human motion in particular, have emerged during the last decades in various domains ranging from automotive and truck over healthcare, construction and pedestrian simulation to the gaming industry.
September 2018 - December 2021 Virtual EngineeringVirtual Driver Ergonomics
The aim of the Virtual Driver Ergonomics project (KK-stiftelsen/INFINIT Dnr 20160296) was to carry out research related to the development of the Swedish digital human modelling (DHM) tool IPS IMMA so that it is able to assist product developers in the vehicle industry to perform fast and objective virtual driver-vehicle interaction analyses of physical ergonomics.
January 2017 - January 2019 Virtual EngineeringVirtual Verification of Human-Robot Collaboration
The objective of the Virtual Verification of Human-Robot Collaboration project (Vinnova Dnr 2015-03719) is to perform research and development actions needed for the creation of a simulation tool that facilitates efficient and valid simulation of human-robot collaboration and where the consideration of human variation is supported.
January 2016 - December 2018 Virtual EngineeringVirtual Driver
The aim of the Virtual Driver project (KK-stiftelsen/INFINIT Dnr 20140296) was to carry out research related to the development of the Swedish digital human modelling (DHM) tool IMMA (Intelligently Moving Manikins) to further develop the tool so that it can be utilised in the vehicle industry to perform efficient and valid virtual driver-vehicle interaction analyses.
January 2015 - January 2016 Virtual EngineeringDigital Albert
The purpose of the research project Digital Albert (KK-stiftelsen Dnr. 2007/0137) is to improve the efficiency of product development processes by exchanging knowledge and experiences about user centred design methods and technologies between the two branches: vehicle and health care industries.
January 2008 - December 2009 Virtual Engineering