Dear Francois,
I think our Institute (of Textiles and Clothing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) is one of the places where you can make your inquiry. We had a colleague by the name of Dr Ameersing Luximon specialises in footwear design and technologies. His PhD is on shoe last, and thus shapes and sizes of feet/shoes. He also invented a portable foot scanner akin Nike one Terry mentioned. Unfortunately he had left us shortly ago. His wife is now with our School of Design and is running a project providing head measurement data of non-Caucasian for research and industrial purposes. I am sure you can google both of them and their work more on the web. Hope this can be of help.
Frankie
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Frankie NG PhD(RCA), MDesRCA, EMBA(CUHK), Life FCSD (Chartered), CText FTI (Chartered), Life FRSA, Life FHKITA, Life HKDA
Former Design Chair
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Sent: Monday, 13 May 2019 10:13 AM
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Hi Francois,
Nike has a free mobile AI-based app to photograph your feet and tell you which size shoes to buy? It's reported extensively, e.g. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1zW7-H_Ny7WXYxaX_Z3KP0qoUVpAE8X6dbNC_oeTRr2em_C-JpIw8Y-y293ygnHqzmz4N3oront9x1xUUNB039ylqWJJgLpuIS8hs3aI7X-fJmCJelYj0xWflZjninyIGEbtjfyI5vQryheoLbUWb-0BNLQpAiKdHWXK0bzD_WMs3bhgvkPvcOJ1s9CwyfxdsH9J-wdBV-CrTxMEoyJaVJj92Dvk18dtU5DaLLBxFeXLKH0wKQ0_wqhoV5yzvWHjxMVBIKDpUU2YTtEX8ZJV9yKCvswPwbKYEa-oCuxsvYrzcbQcYyoQN01G9eBvrB5_n/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dezeen.com%2F2019%2F05%2F09%2Fnike-fit-app-ar-ai-trainers%2F but I haven't managed to find it on Nike's site. Perhaps it might be a starting point for a design system for your purposes?
Cheers,
Terry
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On Behalf Of Francois Nsenga
Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2019 3:44 AM
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Subject: Request on research reports on footwear design
Hello everyone!
Does anyone have - or know of someone who has - conducted research on feet of non-Caucasian people, towards designing better fit footwear artefacts for different ages in non-Western milieux?
A local artisan is asking me to help him with advice on how to improve on items he is already making. But I need proven evidence in order to advise him better!
With thanks in advance!
François
In Northern Rwanda
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