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An anthropometric survey using digital photogrammetry: a case study in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Barros, Bruno | Soares, Marcelo

Affiliations: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco- Núcleo de Design. Rodovia BR 104. KM 60, Sítio Juriti - Caruaru - PE – Brasil - CEP: 55002-970. | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Departamento de Design. Av. dos Reitores, s/n, Cidade Universitária- Recife - PE, Brasil. CEP: 50670-901.

Note: [] Corresponding author: BARROS, Bruno. E-mail: barros_bruno@hotmail.com

Keywords: Anthropometry, Anthropometric Surveys, Digital Photogrametry, Digita System

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0072-4069

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 4069-4075, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

This study was carried out in a partnership with the Federal University of Pernambuco and the Faculty of Human Motricity of the Technical University in Lisbon (Portugal). The aim of the study was the measurement of human body segments throughout the digital photogramety, comparing and analysing data into Recife sample and to validate the Digital System as anthropometric survey tool. The result of the analysis has introduced: Data from the sample; Data by age; Data by Sex; Data by ethnicity; Data by region of birth; Difference of data from population individually. Besides to prove the true efficiency of the software.

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