An Immersive Workstation Design Tool Using Three-Dimensional Anthropometric Data

Abstract

With the recent completion of the Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource (CAESAR), a comprehensive set of three-dimensional anthropometric data has been made available to the design community. This paper presents the development of a virtual reality tool which makes use of three-dimensional CAESAR data in a fully-immersive, virtual reality (VR) environment. This advanced operator workstation design tool enables design decisions to be made in a three-dimensional setting, allowing accurate visualization of relationships among human landmark data and workstation geometry. Methods for filtering and selecting data are presented. In addition, the utilization of landmark relationships specified by 3D data in an immersive, 3D design space are examined. The rationale, development, and implementation of this advanced operator workstation design tool are also presented.

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