A New Approach to Developing Digital 3-D Headforms

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• Personal Author:
  Viscusi D ; Zhuang Z
• Description:
  Facial measurements were collected during the 2003 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) survey of 3,997 respirator users. In addition to traditional measuring techniques, 1013 subjects were scanned with a Cyberware 3-D Rapid Digitizer. Ten facial dimensions relevant to respirator fit were chosen for defining a principal component analysis (PCA) model which divides the user population into five face-size categories. Mean facial dimensions were then computed as a goal for a representative headform for each size category and used to identify 5 scans in each category. An average of the five scanned subjects was used to develop a single standard headform for each face-size category. Four digital 3-D models were developed: small, medium, large, and long. The new headforms include facial features not found on current standard headforms. However, reducing differences between the headform dimensions and the computed mean facial dimensions will require additional future work. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Safety
• Keywords:
  Anthropometry Face-masks Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Respirators Respiratory-protective-equipment
• Publisher:
  Society of Automotive Engineers
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  NPPTL - National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035347
• Citation:
  2008 Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 17-19, 2008. Technical paper 2008–01–1878, Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 2008 Jun; :1-9
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  2008 Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 17-19, 2008
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0076fd9fe6846002a207fe43f9a38ddd0814c65ea95eedfccbd5567f0034be775b12c1a5844180827475156ec79d9068e13504115e12a1192dfadecb65810024
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187237/cdc_187237_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 14.74 KB ]