Variability in body size and shape of UK offshore workers: A cluster analysis approach

Anthropometric Study among Chilean Older Adults

“…Interestingly after performing the assignation of the somatotype, many of the represented subjects were out of range. This inadequacy of the standard somatotype calculation and assignation process has been described for younger populations, for example for UK offshore workers it was evident deviations in the somatotype assignation, and a PCA and Clustering algorithm was applied [22]. In this context to optimise the assignation of the somatotype in the older adults age group.…”

A review of the methodology and applications of anthropometry in ergonomics and product design

“…Nevertheless, it has been acknowledged that the level of accuracy and precision in anthropometric measurements depends on the application (Meunier and Yin 2000). Anthropometric measurement methods can be generally divided into one-dimensional (1D) direct manual measurements (Courtney and Wong 1985;Jeong and Park 1990;Das and Kozey 1999;Laing et al 1999;Ghaderi, Maleki, and Dianat 2014), two-dimensional (2D) photogrammetric methods (Gazzuolo et al 1992;Chou and Hsiao 2005;Yu et al 2013;Hsiao et al 2015a) and, more recently, three-dimensional (3D) scanning methods (Wang et al 1999;Paquet and Feathers 2004;Krauss et al 2011;Stewart, Ledingham, and Williams 2017). These methods are described in more detail as follows.…”

“…In recent years, indirect 3D anthropometric measurements have been adopted to design a variety of products or environments for general and working populations, and for the elderly and people with disabilities. These projects have included footwear designs (Mochimaru, Kouchi, and Dohi 2000;Witana, Feng, and Goonetilleke 2004;Krauss et al 2008Krauss et al , 2011Hong et al 2011; Lee and Wang 2015), fashion and apparel designs (Lee, Hong, and Kim 2004;Gupta et al 2006;Zheng, Yu, and Fan 2007;Jung, Kwon, and You 2010;Pandarum, Yu, and Hunter 2011), headrelated product designs Lacko et al 2017), workstations or work environment designs (Wang et al 1999;Hanson et al 2009), personal protective equipment designs (Hsiao et al 2009(Hsiao et al , 2013Stewart, Ledingham, and Williams 2017), tractor cab designs (Hsiao et al 2005) and electric scooter designs (Chou and Hsiao 2005), as well as other products for special groups, such as the elderly and physically impaired individuals (Yu et al 2013;Wang et al 2015).…”

“…However, it is worth noting that, when the design involves working populations, there might be some body size differences between professional working groups and general population that should be considered when defining the target population. Such differences might be due to a variety of factors, such as job requirements, the nature and culture of the work environment and years of employment (Hsiao et al 2015a;Stewart, Ledingham, and Williams 2017).…”

“…The PCA method has been used in a number of anthropometric investigations for establishing sizing systems for apparel and apparel-related products (Zheng, Yu, and Fan 2007;Lee and Wang 2015) and personal protective equipment (Laing et al 1999;Hsiao et al 2009Hsiao et al , 2015a, as well as for the design of tractor and truck cabs (Hsiao et al 2005(Hsiao et al , 2013Guan et al 2012), children's bicycles (Laios and Giannatsis 2010) and brain-computer interfacing (BCI) headsets (Lacko et al 2017). Cluster analysis (CA), which involves finding similar groups of data, is another commonly used multivariate statistical method (Mochimaru, Kouchi, and Dohi 2000;Lee, Hong, and Kim 2004;Chung, Lin, and Wang 2007;Krauss et al 2008Krauss et al , 2011Hong et al 2011;Stewart, Ledingham, and Williams 2017). Individual clusters in this analysis may be of a specific absolute dimension, but also have unique body proportions (e.g.…”