New York Laboratory

NEW YORK CAPABILITIES

• User Testing Laboratory

  The user testing experts in our New York lab help you understand how people interact with products across real-world and controlled environments. Leveraging multidisciplinary expertise, deep familiarity with industry standards, and access to the diverse demographic and clinical populations of New York City to enable representative studies, our teams design and implement customized testing protocols to generate deep product insights.

  Our evaluations inform design decisions, improve product safety and efficacy, and support incident investigations. Our capabilities include:

  • Large-scale participant studies

  • Scalable research and analysis

  • Flexible, configurable space

  • Observation room with one-way window and live communication to participant space

  • Synchronized video streaming, remote camera control, and motion capture capabilities

  • Custom behavioral and psychological physiological evaluations

  • Usability data acquisition

• Human Health & Wellness Laboratory

  With extensive expertise in human behavior, epidemiology, physiology, and data science, our lab specializes in acquiring hard-to-get data, supporting clients with a broad range of customized user performance, health, and wellness studies.

  Operating out of a modern New York City space equipped with a one-way window observation room, our teams leverage cutting-edge biometric and motion capture technology to help manufacturers evaluate wearable devices, sensors, and medical products. This purpose-built environment allows us to deliver impactful results for a wide range of clients — and their consumer users and patients. We provide:

  • Data collection and optimization

  • Prototype evaluations

  • Risk assessments

  • Biometric evaluations

  • Regulatory compliance testing

• Electrical Testing Laboratory

  Exponent's electrical experts leverage our electrical testing laboratories to evaluate computers, smartphones, household appliances and devices, LCD and OLED displays, batteries, power converters, vehicle electronics, and other consumer electronics devices and components. Our scientists and engineers provide critical insights into design and manufacturing processes to help clients understand their most formidable performance, safety, security, and compliance challenges. Our capabilities include: 

  • Teardowns, electrical testing, functional analysis, and reverse engineering for a wide variety of consumer products

  • Electronics investigations in support of patent proceedings, including invalidity and/or noninfringement analysis

  • Integrated software and hardware testing and evaluation for safety and functionality investigations