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Leader of the User Centred Product Design research group.
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 time and budget constrained product realisation process. Central in Dan's research is digital human modelling (DHM) and how such technology can contribute in supporting designers and engineers to consider ergonomics/human factors proactively at virtual stages of the design process. Dan also conducts research in how sensors integrated into textiles can be used to evaluate ergonomics, including how the collected data can improve simulations in the virtual world.
Dan is leader of the User Centred Product Design (UCPD) research group at University of Skövde. UCPD is one of several research groups within the research specialisation Virtual Engineering at the School of Engineering Science. The group's research is to a large extent carried out in close cooperation with industrial partners. UCPD has currently four focus areas: digital human modelling, anthropometry, industrial information design, and applications of smart textiles.
Production & Manufacturing Research
2024. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2024.2323484
2023. Editor (collection).
Systems
2023. Article.
https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11080395
Procedia CIRP
2023. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.09.191
International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics
2023. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSOI.2023.132345
Advances in Digital Human Modeling: Proceedings of the 8th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium, 4-6 September 2023, Antwerp, Belgium
2023. Conference paper. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37848-5_5
Proceedings of the 7th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium (DHM 2022), August 29–30, 2022, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
2022. Conference paper.
https://doi.org/10.17077/dhm.31759
International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation
2022. Article. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhfms.2021.10048920
SPS2022: Proceedings of the 10th Swedish Production Symposium
2022. Conference paper.
https://doi.org/10.3233/ATDE220170
Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021): Volume V: Methods & Approaches
2022. Conference paper. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74614-8_44
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 EngineeringThe 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 EngineeringThe 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 EngineeringThe 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 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 EngineeringProject 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 EngineeringThe 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 EngineeringThe 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 EngineeringThe 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 EngineeringThe 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