SANTOS, D. B.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7660503679918041; SANTOS, David Bastida.
Resumen:
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.
