Creation of the Anthropometric Models of Children

1. Used a flatbed scanner to get an image of each page of data in the "Anthropometry of Infants Children and Youths to Age 18 for Product Safety Design" (Snyder, R., Schneider, L., Owings, C., Reynolds, H., Golomb, H., Schork, M.)reference manual [ISBN 0-89883-221-7].
2. Used OCR Software to register the information from the scanned images.
3. Imported the data into Microsoft Excel.
4. Used an Excel Worksheet to extract the desired anthropometric information from original data
5. Saved the extracted anthropometric information in a form which could be read into the SASS (Spreadsheet Anthropometry Scaling System) component of the Transom JACK system.

At this point, the JACK versions of the Anthropometric Models of Children were complete. The following steps were necessary to produce the HANIM 1.0 compliant VRML97 humanoid versions of the Anthropometric Models of Children:

6. Created conversion routines to export the human model information of each child model from the JACK system into a VRML coordinate space which would be compatible with an HANIM 1.0 compliant scene graph which I had created for BIMOS.
7. Created an interpolator creation routine to produce the PositionInterpolator and OrientationInterpolator nodes for the Max CHILDHOOD model. Currently the Max CHILDHOOD model only contains the information for the 50th percentile of the population of children for which the data was gathered. Future versions (very soon) of the Max CHILDHOOD model will contain the 5th and 95th precentile information as well.

Matthew Beitler. <beitler@asel.udel.edu>