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Activity Number:
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244
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Risk Analysis
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| Abstract - #307552 |
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Title:
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Characterization of Occupant Anthropometry and Clearance Measures in Passenger Cars
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Author(s):
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Duane Steffey*+ and Robert Bove, Jr. and Jacob Fisher and Lauren Ciccarelli and Robert Cargill and Tara Moore
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Companies:
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Exponent, Inc. and Exponent, Inc. and Exponent, Inc. and Exponent, Inc. and Exponent, Inc. and Exponent, Inc.
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Address:
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149 Commonwealth Drive, Menlo Park, CA, 94025,
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Keywords:
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injury risk ; motor vehicles ; principal components ; hierarchical regression
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Abstract:
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Recent studies have suggested a link between body size and injury potential in motor vehicle accidents. Differences in outcomes may reflect varying positions of people within the passenger compartment and clearance measures between the occupant and vehicle structures. This paper presents analyses of data on adult subjects of varying heights and weights who were seated in the driver's seat of passenger cars and asked to adjust the seat and restraint to a comfortable driving position. Principal component methods are applied to obtain interpretable lower-dimensional reductions of anthropometric and seating geometry variables. Hierarchical regression models are developed to assess vehicle-specific effects while incorporating subject-level covariates. Study findings are essential in approaching the investigation of relationships between anthropometric measures and injury potential.
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