VP Footwear Research @volumental
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined July 2010
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Children’s feet change shape significantly as they grow. Small children’s feet are proportionally wider and higher compared to teenagers' feet.
This animation visualizes the average 3D foot shape across all children’s sizes, based on 10,000 foot scans per size.
It’s been a great pleasure collaborating with Danish researchers and podiatrists on this study! Excited to share our findings, and there’s even more to come from the data we’ve collected. Stay tuned for future papers!
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💡Welcome to read the paper by Christian Wong et al. | #Protocol Article: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Children’s #Feet and Lower Extremities
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#children #sports #pain #publichealth
👟 Did you know that wearing footwear can actually change the shape of your feet?
Check out these fascinating foot scans from 'The Shoe Effect' study conducted in Sri Lanka, powered by Volumental!
Footwear brands like adidas, Lululemon, On, Vivobarefoot, and Aldo are already leveraging our database of over 50 million 3D foot scans and our expertise to enhance the fit of their shoes. 📈💡
Recently, I had the privilege of attending Prof. Benno Nigg's presentation at the The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), where he was recognized as an Honorary Doctor.
His talk, "Running Shoe Research Methods, Errors, and New Paradigms," shed light on crucial aspects of #footwearbiomechanics
During the Q&A, Prof. Nigg emphasized the need for advancements in footwear fit research—a sentiment aligned with my own work here at @Volumental
The Development Director of one of the world's iconic footwear brands just told me that he refers to our 2019 study, published in Nature - Scientific Reports, as his "foot bible" and he ensures that everyone on his development team reads it.
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
If analysis yields unexpected results, visualizing the data is a great first step towards understanding why
Articles like this give me motivation to keep researching
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Our conference paper has been published in Footwear Science.
I will be presenting the paper at the Footwear Biomechanics Symposium in Osaka on June 26-28
Feel free to DM me if you would like to get access to the paper.
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I'm fortunate to be using the World's largest database of 3D foot scans for our research. The dataset enables us to study foot shapes and footwear fit parameters at the level that was not possible before.
yahoo.com/lifestyle/sizing-t… via @Yahoo
Fit tests are a very important step of the footwear development process. It’s extremely important that footwear brands work with fit testers who represent shoppers of their target markets, so that newly developed shoes will fit the majority of their customers.
The heel width of the first fit tester is at the 10th percentile (a very narrow heel) and the heel width of the second fit tester is above the 80th percentile (a very wide heel).