ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the barriers and offers examples of approaches to overcome many of them, either immediately or over a period of future development in the sciences of anthropometry and biomechanics. However, most of the barriers discussed here are more appropriately visualized as various sizes of potholes, cracks, crevices and canyons reflecting inadequacy of information, especially of the type and quantity needed for computer human modelling. The main source for such data has been the study of three-dimensional data for clothing manikins reported by McConville, Alexander and Velsey. Through accidents of history and neglect of the proper study of man, many pervasively irritating, information-related barriers have been created in the path of progress. In adding to bivariate correlations, human modelling typically requires multivariate distributions which can help to accurately define dimensions of depth, breadth and circumference of whole human forms.
