ABSTRACT
Th e fi eld of anthropometry is the science of measurement of the human body from which comparisons and characterizations of the size and shape of the body in diff erent postures can take place. Th e size and shape of human bodies are important in many applications, such as clothing design, machine design, transportation, in the medical/healthcare fi eld, aircraft cockpit design, space suit design for astronauts, safety, biometrics, criminology, interface design for household/industrial products, and so on. Th e anthropometric data are some of the basic tools used for analysis and design requirements by human factors, ergonomics professionals, architects, interior designers, and industrial engineers. Anthropometry has its roots in physical anthropology, a discipline that focuses on how human body size and shape has varied with ethnic origins, gender, and climatic and altitude variations. Most of the anthropometric measurement methods were fi rst used by physical anthropologists. Th is study required the development of two sets of tools: (1) measurement techniques to obtain data from humans; and (2) statistical techniques to transform the measurement data into summary data.
