Um padrão antropométrico para as empresas de calçados de Campina Grande baseado em medidas específicas das mulheres idosas.

Abstract

This study intended to propose an anthropometric pattern for the footwear companies of Campina Grande based on specific measures of its inhabitant elderly women, aged between 60 and 90 years. Such pattern was based on the perceptual and anthropometric point of view in comparison with the footwear developed regarding the Paris point. For this research, 51 users were selected from the database of the Project "Mais Calce" developed by SENAI, which determined the anthropometric profile of the elderly from Paraíba. The flat shoes type following these specific measures were designed and submitted to comfort tests according to the norms by ABNT NBR14834 (2015), NBR14835 (2013) and NBR14840 (2011). Both the already known footwear developed by using the Paris point and those developed from the specific anthropometric measures were analyzed through technical procedures determined as standard by the norms in order to analyze their comfort under the ergonomic point. The procedures undertaken were the testing of shoe mass, perception of its wearing and presence of spots and injuries. The results contributed a specific anthropometric pattern to the footwear industry, demonstrating comfort levels 25% higher than the footwear produced when adopting the Paris point, in accordance with the utilized methodological ABNT norms. The validation of these new anthropometric measures contributes, in a relevant manner, to the industry for the development of new products, to the consumers who wear them and to the academic area, in which scientific field research is presented with data and methodology capable of being studied and replicated.