School staff
Dr Russell Marshall
Senior Lecturer
Tel +44 (0)1509 222669
Email r.marshall@lboro.ac.uk
Location LDS 2.11
Personal profile
Russell Marshall has an MEng in Design and Manufacturing Engineering and a PhD in Modular Product Design from Loughborough University. Russell is also a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Russell is the leader of the Design Ergonomics Group. His research background spans design and ergonomics and includes digital human modelling, modular product design, and drawing and visualisation.
Russell worked as a Research Associate and Research Fellow on projects from 1997 to 2003 with Ford Motor Co, and both UK and EU funded projects coving interests ranging from inclusive design through to virtual engineering. He became a Lecturer in 2003 and a Senior Lecturer in 2009. Russell is also principle developer of SAMMIE, the digital human modelling software.
Russell is involved in research and consultancy in a number of design ergonomics areas including inclusive and accessible design through the EPSRC funded AUNT-SUE project; understanding the voices, experiences and actions of older people to enhance existing guidance on kitchen design through the NDA Transitions in Kitchen Living project; the design of a new accessible Journey Planner for Transport for London (TfL) in collaboration with Dr. Steve Summerskill; work with the Department for Transport into driver vision from vehicles; and research into drawing and visualisation with Phil Sawdon in the School of the Arts as part of TRACEY the online journal of contemporary drawing research.
Teaching
Programme Director for:
- BSc Design Ergonomics - in collaboration with Dr Steve Summerskill
- MA/MSc in 2D and 3D Visualisation - in collaboration with Phil Sawdon (School of the Arts)
Modules Taught
- DSA006 Prototyping for Design (Engineering Drawing)
- DSA101 Ergonomics & Design 1
- DSB015/16 Design and Manufacturing Technologies
- DSB017 Computer Aided Ergonomics
- DSC017 Computer Aided Ergonomics
- DSC025 Computer Aided Modelling and Manufacture
- DSP101 Introduction to Ergonomics and Design
- DSP851 Research Methods for Design Ergonomics
- SAP103 Final Project: Realisation and Presentation
Research
Design Ergonomics Group, Drawing Research Group.
Research interests cover a broad range of topics within Product, Industrial and Engineering Design including: Digital Human Modelling and tools and techniques for facilitating and empowering designers in human-centred design practice; Inclusive and Universal Design; Ergonomics and Human Factors in design, Modular product design, and Drawing and Visualisation.
Russell is involved in research and consultancy in a number of design ergonomics areas:
Russell is principle investigator on the EPSRC funded AUNT-SUE project focussed on accessible and inclusive transport. As developer of the accessible design tool HADRIAN, Russell has been working with the Loughborough team exploring the benefits of employing ergonomics in the CAD environment, through the use of digital human modelling, to user centred design and in particular, inclusive or universal design issues.
Russell is principal developer of SAMMIE the digital human modelling system. Initially developed by Professor Keith Case at Nottingham University and then at Loughborough in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. Since 1999 development and exploitation has been led by Russell together with Dr Steve Summerskill in the Design School.
SAMMIE is the embodiment of ongoing research into anthropometry, digital human modelling, ergonomics, workplace and product design, biomechanical analysis, vision assessment, and universal design. SAMMIE research includes specific support for the 'Design for All' (GR/M68510/01) and AUNT-SUE (GR/S90867/01) research projects. It also includes the development of the protocol for the assessment of visibility in vehicles - PNCAP done in collaboration with CCD Ergonomics, ESRI and TRL. Recently it has been used for the assessment of drivers' field of view and mirror assessments on behalf of the Department for Transport.
SAMMIE has been used in over 100 commercial ergonomics projects by SAMMIE CAD alone. SAMMIE has also been purchased and used by International companies such as CCD Ergonomics, TRL, RSSB, Rolls Royce, Institute of Naval Medicine, National Air Traffic Services, and the Indian Defence Institute. It has also been used for research and teaching at Universities in Loughborough, Warsaw, Lisbon, Botswana, Ryerson - Toronto, California, NTUST - Taiwan, and UCS Brazil.
The ongoing development of SAMMIE supported recent publications in journals and at conferences and led to book chapters in: Working Postures & Movements, tools for evaluation and engineering (2004), the Handbook of Digital Human Modelling (2009); and Handbook of Human Factors in Consumer Product Design (2011).
Other recent research includes:
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Transitions in Kitchen Living examines the role, function and design of the kitchen as it affects the lives of older people living in domestic and supportive housing in both urban and rural locations. Findings from this research will contribute to the oral history of kitchen design; provide greater understanding of person/environment fit in terms of individual morale, and lead to more inclusive design through the development of an on-line resource where the voices, experiences and actions of older people will enhance existing guidance on kitchen design.
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The Online Journey Planning project concerns the development of a new Accessible Journey Planner for Transport for London. This has particular relevance for those who are older or who have disabilities that may need to be aware of particular barriers to travel or the need for assistance before deciding if the journey is possible and actually making the journey. The impact from this research and its implementation by TfL is very significant. Millions of people are likely to benefit from the new Journey Planner tool improving general transport accessibility and for upcoming events such as London 2012.
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Russell is also actively involved in drawing and visualisation research in collaboration with the School of the Arts. Russell is editor of TRACEY the online journal of contemporary drawing research. This work has led to a number of publications including Drawing Now, and TRACEY is currently working on a second book on the theme of Hyperdrawing.
Read more on AUNT-SUE, SAMMIE, HADRIAN, TiKL and the Journey Planner within the Design Ergonomics Research Group pages.
Featured publications
- Marshall, R., Case, K., Porter, J.M., Summerskill, S.J., Gyi, D.E., Davis, P.M. and Sims, R.E., ''HADRIAN: a virtual approach to design for all'', Journal of Engineering Design, 21(2&3), April 2010, pp 253-273, ISSN 0954-4828.
- Marshall, R., Porter, J.M., Sims, R.E., Summerskill, S.J., Gyi, D.E. and Case, K., ''The HADRIAN approach to accessible transport'', Work - A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 33(3), 2009, pp 335-344, ISSN 10519815.
- Marshall, R., Case, K., Summerskill, S.J., Sims, R.E., Gyi, D.E. and Davis, P.M., ''Virtual Task Simulation for Inclusive Design'', Digital Human Modeling, LNCS-5620, Vincent G. Duffy, Springer, Second International Conference, ICDHM 2009, held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 2009, pp 700-709, ISBN 978-3-642-02808-3, [Also on CD-ROM].
- Marshall, R., Case, K., Porter, J.M., Sims, R.E. and Gyi, D.E., ''Using HADRIAN for Eliciting Virtual User Feedback in 'Design for All''', Journal of Engineering Manufacture; Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, 218(9), 1st September 2004, 1203-1210, ISSN 09544054. DOI: 10.1243/0954405041897149.