WEAR was first proposed in 2000 at an International Ergonomics Association (IEA) meeting.

The
strategic plan was drafted at the first working meeting in Paris, France in 2002. The first
workshop was at the IEA in Seoul, Korea in 2003. Since then there have been working meetings
and symposiums in USA, South Africa, Brazil, China, Australia, Canada, The Netherlands,
Japan, New Zealand and Spain. WEAR gained support from the International Council for
Science: Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) in Berlin, Germany in 2004.
Renewal of WEAR as the CODATA Task group for Anthropometric Data and Engineering was
made in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012.[3] The first WEAR short course was held in Paris in 2008.
The website launch of the beta version of the online WEAR resource was at the IEA Congress in
Beijing in 2009.[4] The WEAR Conference met in Adelaide in 2011.[5]
To create a searchable resource like WEAR is a mammoth undertaking. A standardization
procedure was required to make more than 120 different anthropometric databases searchable
and comparable. These databases often had different measurement collection methodologies,
some described without much detail, and some in languages other than English. To achieve a
workable standard the Anthropometric Measurement Interface (AMI) was created. [6]
A WEAR/CODATA meeting was held on 18 November 2013 in Long Beach, California, USA.
During the November 18th meeting those present discussed the new datasets added to the
WEAR portal and organised for future uploads. WEAR representatives appointed new officers
and made plans to attend the CODATA meeting in India in 2014.[7]

Goals[edit]
The goals of WEAR are, according to its members, "to provide high-quality data,
including anthropometry, tools and applications, for end-users in a self-sustaining way and to
provide an educational forum with which to expand the user-base of anthropometric data for
design purposes."[4]

References[edit]
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2.

Jump up^ Getting the Measure of Australians, Australian Quarterly Vol 84 Issue 2 AprJun 2013.
Jump up^ http://www.codata.info/taskgroups/TGanthro/index.html

3.

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up^ http://www.techylib.com/en/view/mammettired/as_approved_by_the_codata_general_assemb
ly_berlin_2004_renewal_ap

4.

^ Jump up to:a b Sizing Up Australia The Next Step, Safe Work Australia, August 2013,
chpt 17, p.3. http://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/swa/about/publications/pages/sizing-upaustralia

5.

Jump up^ All human variation put under the microprocessor, The Australian, Feb 15
2011, (IT) p.35. Too obese for hospital, The Advertiser, February 15th 2011.

6.

Jump up^ Ennis, E., & Robinette, K. (2011). "Standardization for the purpose of the
comparison of international data. Introducing the WEAR Data Network (AMI and ARIS)." Paper
presented at the WEAR World Engineering Anthropometry Resource, Adelaide, Australia, 2011.

7.

Jump up^ http://codata.org/blog/2014/02/25/codata-task-group-on-anthropometric-dataand-engineering-recent-activities/

Further reading[edit]
Newton, David E., DNA Evidence and Forensic Science, Infobase Publishing, New York, 2008,
pp 206, 209.
Niu, Jianwei, Li, Zhizhong and Xu, Song, Block Division in Three-Dimensional Head Shape
Clustering in Duffy, Vincent G. (ed.) Digital Human Modelling, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Heidelberg, 2009, p. 64.
Macauley-Bush, Pamela, Ergonomics: Foundational Principles, Applications, and Technologies,
CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida, 2011, p. 144.
Niu, Jianwei and Li, Zhizhong, Using 3D Anthropometric Data in Design in Preedy, Victor R.
(ed.), A Handbook of Anthropometry: Physical Measures of Human Form in Health and Disease,
Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London, 2012, vol 4, part 26, chpt.185, p. 3003.
Plocher, Tom, Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick and Choong, Yee-Yin, Cross-Cultural Design in Salvendy,
Gavriel (ed.) Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken,
New Jersey, 2012, Chpt.6, p. 169.
Barb, Jrome, Wolff, Marion, and Mollard, Rgis, Human-Centred Design Approach to
Integrate Touch-Screen in Future Aircraft Cockpits in Kurosu, Masaaki (ed.) Human-Computer
Interaction: Interaction Modalities and Techniques. Part IV, Springer-Verlag. Berlin Heidelberg
2013, chapt 21, p. 431.

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