WEAR: World Engineering Anthropometry Resource

WEAR is an international collaborative effort to create a world wide resource of anthropometric data for a wide variety of engineering applications. In addition WEAR is the primary project of a formal CODATA Task Group titled Anthropometric Data and Engineering.The following organizations are participants:

The Second International WEAR Conference, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada July 31 – August 1, 2007

Advance Notice for the Banff WEAR conference (July 31-August 1, 2007 )

Invitation to Attend the Banff WEAR conference (July 31-August 1, 2007 )

WEAR Final Program

Banff WEAR Conference Registration

Members TWIKI Site

Members:

Dr. Hein Daanen (co-chair CODATA task group) TNO Human Factors, The Netherlands
Mr. Sandy Ressler (co-chair CODATA task group) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Dr. Kathleen M. Robinette, Ph.D. (USA) Principal Research Anthropologist Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL/HEPA
Dr. Lee Young Suk (Korea) Chonnam University , Korea
Dr. Masaaki Mochimaru (Japan) Digital Human Research Center National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Japan
Dr. Makiko Kouchi (Japan) Digital Human Research Center National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology , Japan
Dr. Regis Mollard (France) Universite Rene Descartes, UFR Biomedicale des Saints-Peres Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Appliquee , Paris, France
Dr. Eric Paquet (Canada) National Research Council Canada Ottawa (Ontario), Canada
Ms. Daisy Veitch (Australia) SHARP Dummies Pty Ltd, Australia
Dr. Johan Molenbroek, (Netherlands) Delft University of Technology Faculty Industrial Design Engineering, The Netherlands
Ms. Lorraine MacDuff (South Africa) Ergonomics Technologies , Pretoria, South Africa
Ms. Karen Smit (South Africa) Ergonomics Technologies , Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Maria Cristina Palmer Lima Zamberlan (Brasil) Ergonomics Laboratory / Industrial Design Division National Institute of Technology , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Dr. Carla Patricia Guimaraes (Brasil) Ergonomics Laboratory / Industrial Design Division National Institute of Technology , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Ms Flavia C. H. Pastura (Brasil) Ergonomics Laboratory / Industrial Design Division National Institute of Technology , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Mr. Afzal Godil National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Dr. Mao-Jiun Wang (Taiwan) National Tsing Hua University , Taiwan, Republic of China
Mr. Marc Rioux (Canada) Visual Information Technology, Institute for Information Technology , National Research Council Ottawa (Ontario), Canada
Dr. Zouhour Benazouz, Visual Information Technology, Institute for Information Technology , National Research Council Ottawa (Ontario), Canada
Mr. Steven Paquette , US Army Natick Soldier Center, USA

AnthroSources - from NIST a collection of resources for anthropometric professionals and standards developers. (several prior links on this page have been moved to AnthroSources page, look there first)

CARDLAB - a collection of resources for anthropometry, engineering design and more.

Events (Past and Future)

Advance Notice for the Banff WEAR conference (July 31-August 1, 2007 )

February 2007, WEAR conference Adelaide Australia

October 2006, special session at CODATA 2006, Beijing China

July 2006, panel session at IEA 2006, Maastrich Netherlands

November 2005, Brazil

July 2005 (web based)

April 6-8, 2005: South Africa

December 10-13 (web based)

Nov 7-11, 2004 CODATA 2004 (Committee on Data for Science and Technology) WEAR presentations, Berlin Germany

Aug 24-29, 2003: Workshop on WEAR project, held in collaboration with International Ergonomics Association 2003, Seoul Korea with partial sponsorship by the Asian Office of Aerospace R&D (AOARD) and the European Office of Aerospace R&D (EOARD) of the US Airforce Office of Scientific Research.

June 2004, Dayton Ohio, prior to DHM in Detroit.

The WEAR project website is a product of the Visualization and Usability Group, Information Access Division, Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

General Infomation and Comments:	Kathleen Robinette
Webmaster:	Sandy Ressler