Journal article
Evaluation of the validity of anthropmetric design assumptions
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Vol.44(33), pp.6-304-6-306
01/01/2000
DOI: 10.1177/154193120004403
Abstract
Some designers assume that if an individual's stature is a certain population percentile, his/her other body dimensions will also be the same population percentile. It is also frequently assumed that anthropometric dimensions are normally distributed. This study evaluated the validity of these two assumptions. 140 subjects, 70 male and 70 female, were grouped according to their stature in the 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, and 95th percentile categories. Each category had 10 males and 10 females. 14 body dimensions were measured and recorded on each individual. A comparison between sample mean percentiles and corresponding population percentiles reported in the published literature did not validate the assumption that a certain percentile stature person will also have his/her other body dimensions in the same percentile. Tests for normality also indicated that a number of dimensions were non-normal (5 of the 14 dimensions for males, 6 of the 14 for females).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evaluation of the validity of anthropmetric design assumptions
- Creators
- Madhu VasuAnil MitalArunkumar Pennathur
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Vol.44(33), pp.6-304-6-306
- DOI
- 10.1177/154193120004403
- ISSN
- 1071-1813
- eISSN
- 2169-5067
- Publisher
- Sage
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2000
- Academic Unit
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984186946202771
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