Introduction
The division's Biomechanical Injury Prevention work is aided by the recent technological advances in the field of biomechanical modelling, design and analysis, primarily applied to injury prevention. Collaborators for this work include several automotive manufacturers, sports equipment companies, and industrical research associations.
The division's Knowledge Management Research focus on a wide range of Knowledge Management areas, based on both the development of knowledge management tools and the application and evaluation of the tools in industrial environments.
The division consists of the following research groups:
- Biomechanical Injury Prevention Group
- Knowledge Management Group
- Accessibility Systems Group
Division contact: Dr B Serpil Acar - Leader IC
Keywords and Topics
- Biomechanics
- Injury Prevention
- Spine Modelling
- Spine Curvature Analysis
- Safety Design
- Design for the Needs of Pregnant Women
- Design for Elderly
- Designer Tools
- Human-Machine Interfaces
- Knowledge Management Tools
- Business and Industry Working Practices
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Knowledge Sharing
- Knowledge Databases
- Data Mining
- Information Systems
- Electronic Communication
- Natural Language Processing
- E-commerce and E-business
- Systems Performance and Measurement
- Cost Effectiveness of IT Systems
- Project Management
- Organisational learning
- Organisational culture
- Accessibility and Usability of Systems
