Anthropometry is a key element of ergonomic studies for addressing the problem of fitting
the tasks/products to user characteristics, but there is a gap between anthropometric data …

Background: The medial longitudinal arch of the foot is important because it helps protect
the foot from injury. Researchers have developed many measures to quantify the …

Everyone's walking style is unique, and it has been shown that both humans and computers
are very good at recognizing known gait patterns. It is therefore unsurprising that dynamic …

Covering every aspect of the process, this book introduces the design, development,
manufacturing, and marketing of footwear. It also presents a comprehensive discussion of …

For decades, footwear brands have developed products using outdated methods and
measurements, working with limited insight into the foot shapes and dimensions of their …

Current shoe designs do not allow for the comprehensive 3-D foot shape, which means they
are unable to reproduce the wide variability in foot morphology. Therefore, the purpose of …

Background The definition of flatfoot remains analytically vague. Toward the purpose of
establishing the standard values of the foot length and arch height in childhood and …

This study compared the foot morphology of Spanish schoolchildren based on their body
mass index and age and analyzed whether body mass index affects the child's foot …

Anthropometric surveys are the most common method of gathering human morphometric
data, used to design clothing, products and workspaces. The aim of this paper was to assess …

There has been a growing trend among shoe manufacturers to introduce customized shoes
to satisfy varying customer style, fit, and comfort needs, thus to increase the product's added …