Anthropometric Data Application in Product Design

Abstract

Anthropometric data are collected and used by all types of organizations for many types of applications. These including universities, hospitals, health statistics departments, militaries, apparel companies, furniture manufacturers, automobile manufacturers, safety equipment companies, aerospace companies, and many other industries and organizations. This paper was performed to summarizes some of the objective data to get the comparison of the body shape between generations. Height, bust girth, waist girth and hip girth were used to define the body size shape. Whole data were obtained from sixty families. Height in young female from the 2002 measurement data showed greater values 3cm in young aged women from 1997 measurement data. For the drop values between hip girth and bust girth, the results were 7cm in twenties, 4cm in fifties. This paper also will discuss some of the most important issues, how family models were changed, and any changes in how we would do this study if we were to do it over again.