Tampa Laboratory

TAMPA CAPABILITIES

• Biomechanical Testing

  Our Tampa biomechanical team evaluates human motion and injury mechanisms to help you test and validate performance and safety for a wide range of products, including fitness wearables, clinical devices, household products, athletic equipment, apparel, footwear, wearable sensors, AR/VR devices, and vehicle and military applications. Our capabilities include:

  • Custom test development, validation, and regulatory compliance testing with human participants
  • Human injury-potential evaluations and risk assessments
  • Long-term wear, product fit, movement dynamics, and loading force testing
  • 3D kinematics and motion capture (optical and IMU-based)
  • Anthropomorphic test devices and impact testing
  • Finite element analysis (FEA) and failure modes and effects analysis
  • Failure and root cause investigations (FMEA)

• User Testing

  The user testing experts in our Tampa lab help you understand how people interact with products across real-world and controlled environments. Exponent teams design and implement customized testing protocols to generate deep product insights. Leveraging multidisciplinary expertise, deep familiarity with industry standards, and access to diverse demographic and clinical populations, we support recruitment across age, skin tone, and health conditions to enable representative studies.

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

  • Large-scale participant studies
  • Customized data acquisition
  • Scalable research and analysis
  • Observation capabilities with synchronized video and motion capture
  • Biometric, behavioral, and usability data acquisition
  • Exercise and functional testing environments
  • Indoor and outdoor testing across year-round conditions

• Digital Health & Medical Device Testing

  Leveraging access to diverse and aging populations, our Tampa lab teams help you evaluate digital health technologies, wearables, and medical devices in the environments and populations in which they are used. We help clients develop and execute studies that meet clinical requirements and real-world use conditions.
  We specialize in "hard-to-get" data related to device performance, usability, and physiological response across long-duration and continuous-use scenarios. Our capabilities include:

  • Data collection and optimization
  • Prototype evaluations
  • Risk assessments
  • Behavioral, psychological, and physiological evaluations
  • Decentralized clinical trial design, execution, monitoring, and data analysis
  • Regulatory compliance testing
  • Environmental testing in hot, humid, and water-adjacent conditions
  • Failure analysis and root cause investigation

• Consumer Product Testing

  Exponent scientists and engineers evaluate a wide range of consumer products, from athletic equipment to wearables and connected devices, supporting user testing, risk analyses, product design evaluations, complex failure investigations, and recall decisions. From controlled lab settings to hot and humid outdoor environments across Florida, we help you understand factors of usability, reliability, performance, and failure in the context of environmental exposure and real-world use scenarios. Our capabilities include:

  • Outdoor benchmarking (e.g., running, cycling, water-adjacent use)
  • Custom test method development and validation
  • Environmental stress and corrosion-related testing
  • Failure analysis and root cause investigation

• Secure Evidence Storage

  Our lab provides secure, controlled evidence storage designed to preserve integrity and chain of custody for high‑stakes litigation matters and prototype storage.