Assignment:
To Start the Project:
1.Choose a product you want to redesign or design from scratch. You can pick just about anything you want as long as there is some sort of measurement involved. You could do clothes, cars, airplanes, desks, chairs, etc.
2.Decide if your product design/redesign will be for both genders, just females or just males.
3.Determine what percentage of people you will target with your design/redesign. The requirement is to use 80 - 95%, but you can be creative with how you use it.
4.Figure out what measurements you will need in order to do your design/redesign. Provided below are some measurements you could use for the project. If there is another measurement you need for your idea, Google is a fabulous resource!
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Measurement
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Female Mean & Standard Deviation
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Male Mean & Standard Deviation
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Height
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?? = 63.8 ????, ?? = 2.6 ????
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?? = 69.5 ????, ?? = 2.4????
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Weight
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?? = 153.1 ????, ?? = 36.5 ????
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?? = 182. 9 ????, ?? = 40.8 ????
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Waist Circumference
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?? = 36.9 ????, ?? = 9.0 ????
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?? = 39.1 ????, ?? = 6.0 ????
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Hip Breadth
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?? = 15.2 ????, ?? = 1.1 ????
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?? = 14.4 ????, ?? = 1.0 ????
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Shoulder to Waist
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?? = 18.6 ????, ?? = 2.0 ????
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?? = 20.3 ????, ?? = 2.2 ????
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Leg Length
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?? = 29.8 ????, ?? = 1.9 ????
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?? = 32.8 ????, ?? = 2.0 ????
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Upper Leg Length
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?? = 14.8 ????, ?? = 1.6 ????
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?? = 16.3 ????, ?? = 1.8 ????
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Sitting Knee Height
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?? = 19.6 ????, ?? = 1.1 ????
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?? = 21.4 ????, ?? = 1.2 ????
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Buttock-to-Knee
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?? = 22.7 ????, ?? = 1.0 ????
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?? = 23.5 ????, ?? = 1.1 ????
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Head Circumference
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?? = 21.6 ????, ?? = 0.6 ????
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?? = 22.7 ????, ?? = 0.7 ????
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Foot Length
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?? = 9.6 ????, ?? = 0.5 ????
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?? = 10.6 ????, ?? = 0.5 ????
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The Calculations & Explanations for the Project: Answer on a separate sheet & show all work.
5.Explain the item you chose to design or redesign and explain why you chose this item. This can be narrative and/or a sketch.
6.State the percentage of people you are targeting and which gender or genders. Briefly (in a sentence or two) explain why you chose this percentage.
7.Sketch a standard normal curve showing your targeted percentage shaded on the graph.
8.Briefly (in a few sentences) explain what measurements you needed to use in your design/redesign.
9.Calculate the new measurements for your design/redesign. Make sure to label your answers.
10.Explain how the measurements you calculated will guide the design/redesign of your item.
11.On a separate sheet, type up a response to the following:
Feeling passionate about your design/redesign, you publish the results above. A company is interested in what you put together and wants you to present a sales pitch to their board members. Type up a paragraph which would serve as your sales pitch to the company utilizing the information you collected to answer the questions from #2. Make sure you put your thoughts together in a coherent manner and make a convincing argument as to why this is a good design/redesign as well as informing them of the measurements of interest and what it means to the product.
Bonus Opportunity:
- If you correctly incorporate two measurements into your project instead of just one, I will give you two bonus points.
- If you correctly incorporate three measurements into your project instead of one or two, I will give you five bonus points.