ABSTRACT
The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA Center) at the University at Buffalo has been developing an anthropometry database of wheeled mobility device users in the U .S . in a multi -year study. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate data visualization tools and methods that arc being developed to help inform the design of environments and products . One tool is an interactive software .applieation that is used to visualize body size and shapes, three dimensional (3D) reach envelopes, and distributions of structural and functional anthropometric dimensions. The tool also allows the user to select subsets of wheeled mobility user groups from the database. Other design tools developed at the IDeA Center arc performance-based graphical charts. The tools are described in the context of designing for physical accessibility and inclusive design for mobility device users in the built environment. There is an important need for communicating ergonomics research findings in forms that can be readily applied to the task of designing for accessibility.
