Successful child safety seminar - presentations available
On September 20, SAFER invited to a whole day seminar on the latest research on child occupant protection. About fifteen international researchers shared their state-of-art safety research, discussed future opportunities, with the target to set the future agenda for child occupant protection. A special focus was how we align user expectation and the user experience with optimized safety in the context of changing mobility modes.
SAFER's host Lotta Jakobsson comments on the event:
´During the day we managed to summarise the ongoing research and industrial activities in a very good way. We had fruitful discussions and shared knowledge´.
One of the main challenges and a future focus is the fact that real children does not behave like crash test dummies and we need to accomodate this rather than prevent their behaviour. Kristy Arbogast, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was the moderator. About 50 delegated participated in the seminar.
The powerpoint presentations from the seminar are available. Note: an updated version will be uploaded in mid-October, awaiting publication at the AAAM conference.
Presentations available:
- Agenda and participants
- Opening - Kristy Arbogast
- How do child occupants really behave during real-world, everyday driving trips? – Sjaanie Koppel, Monash Univ., Australia
- A novel method for quantifying comfort for child passengers – Julie Brown, NEURA, Australia
- Comfort and attitude evaluation of new vehicle restraints – Anna-Lisa Osvalder, Chalmers, SWE
- Capabilities of current dummies to evaluate child restraints and booster designs in light of child behavior and product innovations – Suzanne Tylko, Transport Canada, Canada
- CRS rating updates – Jessica Jermakian, IIHS, USA
- Quantifying CRS fit in the vehicle seat environment – John Bolte, Ohio State Univ., USA
- Classifying, characterizing, and monitoring children in vehicles – Matthew Reed, UMTRI, USA
- The balance of vehicle and booster protection. Why ban the booster cushion? – Lotta Jakobsson, Volvo Cars, Sweden
- Active safety needs for teen drivers – Kristy Arbogast, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
