The Anthropometrics of Disability - Designing Accessible Communities

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It would be easy to provide a very long list of action items based on the recommendation made at the Workshop. The full set of recommendations is available in the body of the report for reference purposes. Here, we will focus on specific readily achievable actions that could advance the field in the near future. The action agenda is organized using the following goals: • Standardize methods for collecting data, • Improve data collection methods to provide better quality data and increased cost effectiveness • Develop modeling methods that capitalize on current and future information technologies, • Organize anthropometric databases in more useful ways • Develop mechanisms for further communications and dialogue among all the stakeholders. Taking each of these goals in turn, some concrete action items are proposed below: • Standardize methods and databases as much as possible • Develop a manual of landmark descriptions (underway by RERC on Universal Design at Buffalo) • Adopt or develop reliable outcome measures for use in functional anthropometry • Start an ISO effort to develop consensus protocols for data collection that address the specific challenges posed by samples of people with disabilities • Publicize these efforts in the human factors community and among computer model developers (underway by RERCs) • Develop a consensus database structure for research databases • Collaborate on the database structure with human figure modelers • Develop an archive of research databases with standards of quality for contributions • Improve sampling and data collection methods The Anthropometrics of Disability | 50
• Put more emphasis on collecting functional data and data for task specific applications • Encourage researchers who study general populations to include people with disabilities in their samples • Develop more effective stratification methods • Develop innovative methods for collecting 3 -D data that are more portable and less costly than the high quality but expensive laboratory approaches • Test new data collection methodologies through cross validation with established methods • Utilize intra-rater and inter-rater reliability studies in all research • Validate data collected in the laboratory against data on function collected in the real world • Utilize more sophisticated outcome measures when studying functional tasks • Develop modeling methods that capitalize on available software tools • Encourage software developers to include databases of people with disabilities • Develop collaborations between researchers and software developers • Develop full-feature and low-level modeling systems • Test the predictive ability of models with real world examples • Integrate models with computer aided design systems • Utilize an “open source code” modeling system as an inexpensive way to implement models from databases (available through Eriksson) • Organize data in more useful ways • Develop both human figure models and task specific models The Anthropometrics of Disability | 51
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