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Eurofit: Clothing and technological 3-D shape portal
Initially a collaborative European project was designed to implement an online 3-D
body shape measurement data platform enabling
l designers and industrialists to draw on 3-D shape information,
l owners of 3-D data to pool their data and receive revenue,
l IT companies to develop new services.
This platform, launched in 2014, offers opportunity to harmonize 1-D and 3-D data
sets and 3-D data handling tools (Trieb et al., 2013).

World Engineering Anthropometry Resource (WEAR): Technological design
This platform was inaugurated for members of an international organization (WEAR)
by a group of experts in engineering anthropology. It offers a site that comprises data
from over 100 technological design surveys. Access is limited to members who share
their data or tools. The group maintains quality control of the WEAR anthropometric
databases accessed through the site. WEAR proposes checklists for validity (sam-
pling, subject population, and secular change), comparability (definition of measure-
ments), and accuracy (before, during, and after measurement capture) and suggests
ways in which these may be affected (Kouchi and Mochimaru, 2009). There is an
Anthropometric Measurement Interface (AMI) with a web-based software tool to
facilitate collaboration and data sharing between anthropometric researchers across
the globe. It enables users to plan, compare, and search for measurements taken by
others. Further additions include tools and methodologies not only for analyzing data
collected from 3-D static scan data but also for dynamic modeling using motion cap-
ture (Veitch and Robinette, 2006).

ISO/TC 7250-2 technology design
This technical report is designed to be a continually updated repository for the most
recent anthropometric data for technological design applications. It contains statistical
summaries of body measurements together with database background information for
working age people in the national populations of individual ISO member bodies. The
data are intended for use in conjunction with ISO standards for equipment design and
safety, which require body measurement input, wherever national specificity of design
parameters is required (ISO 7250-2: 2010).

3.5 Reflection

Many anticipated problems fail to appear, while others, not envisaged, emerge. Of the
surveys completed during the previous two decades, few organizations have published
reflections on their studies. This is regrettable as prior experience of designing and
implementing surveys could serve to help groups planning to undertake future anthro-
pometric studies. Some comments set out in the succeeding text cover information
drawn from reports of two studies: CAESAR undertaken for technological design
and SizeUK a clothing-specific study.