Abstract
One of the important issues in the bra industry is the size fitting problem, which results in discomfort and dissatisfaction among women users. The traditional way of bra sizing cannot serve the entire range of all women’s body shapes. This study develops a parametric personalized bra design algorithm that can generate personalized bra by using self-measurements of women users. In this study, we investigate the bra industry to develop a new self-measuring approach and create a parametric modeling method to design personalized bras. To evaluate the capacity and the accuracy of this algorithm, we compare the measurements from 3D printed bra prototypes with the self-measurements of the women participants. The preliminary result of this study shows that the parametric personalized bra design algorithm can generate more accurate bra models for different types of body shapes.
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I would like to express my deepest appreciation to all those who provided me the opportunity to complete this project.
A special gratitude I give to my advisor, Professor Roger Ball, whose excellent guidance throughout my works and encouragement on my design decision, helped me on coordinating my project especially in exploring the topic, communicating with stakeholders, and writing this paper. I would also like to acknowledge with many thanks to the crucial roles of my Master committee members, Lisa Marks and Yaling Liu, who contributed their knowledge to help me with Grasshopper parametric methods and gave me highly support on bra pattern design. Without their devotions, I would have not completed this project with such accomplishment.
Furthermore, many thanks go to those lovely schoolmates who assisted me in finishing the tasks of user test study; Xiaoshen Wang as my friend and classmate who had always been discussing the parametric methods with me; And my dear boyfriend Mr. Fan Geng who intensely encourages me all the time. Finally, I appreciate my parents who were always having my back and gave me the warmest support and wise advice.
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Tian, Y., Ball, R. (2020). Parametric Design Method for Personalized Bras. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51038-1_21
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