How does Exponent's approach help you effectively understand design, development, and use challenges for wearables?
Developing "fit for purpose" wearable technologies that can serve large populations requires understanding the needs of individuals. Exponent helps you develop wearable technologies — from wrist and armbands to skin patches and medical devices — that address the needs of broad demographics across a range of use cases to help optimize individual user and health outcomes.
Design and development of wearables.
Exponent's multidisciplinary approach integrates our extensive expertise in biomechanics, human behavior, and data science with detailed knowledge of injury, disease, and cutting-edge intervention modalities to select optimal wearable technologies for "fit for purpose" solutions that are scalable and replicable. Our multidisciplinary teams also have broad expertise in biocompatibility and other challenges associated with materials selection, design, and development of wearables.
Wearable applications.
Wearable technology has the capacity to unlock far-reaching possibilities in the healthcare industry. Exponent's multidisciplinary teams provide solutions that leverage wearables to access value in clinical development, commercialization, and lifecycle management to enhance personalized patient outcomes.
Wearable technology can help demonstrate and optimize the value of clinical interventions, such as medical devices and implants, surgical procedures, pharmaceuticals, and other therapeutic approaches by providing critical data that enables you to effectively chart your product or process development. Exponent's multidisciplinary teams can support the effective design of such studies, ensuring appropriateness of methodologies and data integrity.
Services
For 50+ years, we’ve thrived on solving unstructured problems that require bespoke solutions. Some of our services include:
• Loading on the human body
• Physiological ground truth comparisons
• User-specific characterization (anthropometry, tissue properties)
• Large-scale participant studies
• Human body modeling (physical modeling, simulation, cadaver testing)
• Human injury potential evaluation
• Data acquisition, contextualization through data-driven insights
• Scalable research and analysis (processing and analysis tools)
• Validation in a box/real-world validation (remote validations)
• Methodologies for collecting data (tools)
Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled
With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.
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Biomechanical Expertise for Product Evaluations
Biomechanical risk evaluation for products ranging from consumer and recreational products to industrial equipment and vehicles.
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Biomechanical Engineering Support for Product Design & Development
Biomechanics product design analysis for a range of applications — from apparel to consumer products to wearable sensors to vehicles.
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Biomechanical Injury Investigations & Analysis
Skilled biomechanical analysis to help determine the cause of specific injuries and communicate results in a relevant and clear context.
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Biomechanical Testing & Modeling
Uncover the root cause of injuries with robust and advanced biomechanical analysis.
Experts
Our global and comprehensive expertise across industries gives us a deep understanding of current challenges, best industry practices, and the implications of emerging technologies.
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Capability Insights
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