Textiles have emerged as a promising class of materials for developing wearable robots that
move and feel like everyday clothing. Textiles represent a favorable material platform for …

Compression garments (CGs) provide a means of applying mechanical pressure at the body
surface, thereby compressing and perhaps stabilizing/supporting underlying tissue. The …

The past decade has seen the development and testing of an increasingly large set of
ergonomics tools. With new sections in every chapter, the third edition of Introduction to …

Building on the success of previous editions, the 4th edition of 'Introduction to Human
Factors and Ergonomics' provides a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the field …

Achieving well fitting garments matters to consumers and, therefore, to product development
teams, garment manufacturers and fashion retailers when creating clothing that fits and …

Since 1935, the bra sizing system has been based on bust girth and underbust girth.
Woman's breast is however a very complex 3D geometry, the existing sizing system based …

Sophisticated new technologies are available to the apparel industry to create automated
custom-fitted clothing; research and development of necessary data and proceduresfor …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to compare body shape between USA and Korean
women. It aims to analyze the distribution and proportion of body shapes of two countries …

A simple easy to follow statistical approach has been proposed for developing body size
charts from anthropometric data. It has been possible to cover 95 percent of the population …

This study aims to develop sizing systems for Taiwanese elementary-and high-school
students. A total of 7800 students' anthropometric data covering their ages from 6 to 18 years …