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Show :0 HaJEtop',-9- June 10, 3 sa 1 999 measurement study brings better fit eas. by Bobbie Mixon Aeronautical Systems Center Public Affairs WRIGHT-PATTERSO- AFB, Ohio N The most comprehensive (AFPN) measurement survey continues through July 8 at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. Called CAESAR, for Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource, the defense- - and commercial-industrsurvey is an international study of body sizes and shapes of people The study conceived by the Air Force human-bod- to assist NATO countries design and mansurtools ufacture defense-industr- y n 90 hp 25 Party Barge, 115 hp g Exit 318 vie 6i4iJkLu!S&, 250789 52099 toll free: MimclePageant - (888) 255-886- Seen On: Postcards From The Ledqe Subject lo Macs, tiny transparent ring segments that can correct your vision in a whole new way. are to be They designed permanent, yet may be replaced or removed in case your needs change later? They're that simple. 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According to project managers, 4,000 Conveniently Located Off 3-- 3-- D T-shir- ts off-the-ra- D mid-1980- s, D Robi-nett- CAE-SAR- 's 3-- y 3-- veys people who are prime candidates for military enlistment, as well as major consumers of goods and ser vices. more than 20 commercial industry partners will use the data to improve hundreds of goods and services, from to automobiles blue jeans and and jet aircraft anything a person might wear or use. Ottawa is the seventh site for the project's survey team and the first outside the United States. The survey kicked off April 27, 1997, in Los Angeles, and has collected research 17 d administers policies, regulations and services for the Canadian transportation system. The agency will use the CAESAR data for a variety of transportation needs. The CAESAR project uses the world's whole-bodscanfirst to individual's ner measure an body size and shape, making it the first survey of its kind. According to Kathleen director of AFRL's computerized anthropometric research and design laboratory, vfhich is heading the CAESAR study for the Air Force, uses for the data scancollected from the study and the are ning technology just beginning to be explored. "We're really only scratching the surface of what can be done with this type of scanning technology," Robinette said. Developed by Cyberware Inc., Monterey, Calif., for the CARD laboratory, the whole-bod- y scanner captures the shape of the entire human body in 17 seconds with a single scan. A participant stands on a platform while the scanner projects three-dimensio- D inter-este- port Canada. Transport Canada, headquartered in Ottawa, develops and 18-6- 5. Git EHSkO 3-- as a survey site in conjunction with one of the CAESAR partners, Trans- y "J a strip of eye-saf- e cil of Canada y lii: CCE' laser light onto them. opment's marketability group. Nissan Research and Development, Los Cameras view the laser light to digitize the subject. The result is a precise Angeles, Calif., is one of several CAESAR partners associated with the automotive image. "Data from human scans can be used industry. d In addition, the apparel industry is in the medical community to produce betin scanning customers to proter artificial limbs and burn garments custom-tailoreduce clothing. affordable, that reduce scarring; safety equipment data from the use Garment makers may for hazardous industrial jobs; football proscans to improve items, tective equipment; and equipment for well. race-ca- r as drivers; and for Air Force memthe Air Force has Since the bers' protective gear and aircraft crew led the world in development of advanced : . stations," said Robinette. abilhuman measurement technology. The scanner gives researchers the ity to collect thousands of human body Based on a determination that modern measurements more quickly and com- technology offered better ways to meaprehensively than previously could be sure people than traditional tape meaaccomplished. Past human-bodsurveys sures, Robinette led a search to find used traditional tools, such as tape technologies that could be used in studies. measures, to gather only limited measurThe search ended in the first surement information. small-scal- e scanner a with in will be vey 1989, For the military, CAESAR's data used to design better-fittinuniforms, used to measure heads and faces of Air protective equipment and work stations Force pilots. "Once we had a whole-bod- y for the Air Force. The data also will assist scanner, the automobile industry in producing we approached engineering organizabetter car seats, driver and passenger vis- tions to use the new technology," Robinette said about how the CAESAR project ibility, and instrument-pane- l layouts. was born. Executives from another orga"For example, using this data in a comdifto will be able clearly see nization, Society of Automotive Engiputer, we ferences in the ways a small woman and neers, Warrendale, Pa,, agreed to coordinate a large man reach for a car's radio volsupport for the study by involving partume control," said Linda Urette, project ners in the apparel, aerospace and indusengineer for Nissan Research and Devel--. trial machinery industries. people will be measured at sites in the United States and Canada and 6,800 people at sites in the Netherlands and Italy. The Air Force Research Laboratory here chose the National Research Coun- OGDEN procedure Uveal umw.broadcast.com) PR0V0 ARIS Vision Institute. 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