Georgia Tech is a unit of the University System of Georgia. Shelley Hughes Institute Communications and Public Affairs Imagine clothes that fit better, airplane seats that are actually comfortable and car seats that don't take forever to adjust. That's the idea behind the most comprehensive human body measurement survey ever taken, and volunteers are being sought to stand up and be measured. The whole body scanner, developed by Cyberware Inc. for the CARD Lab, captures the shape of the entire human body in 17 seconds with a single scan. A participant stands on a platform while the scanner projects a stripe of eye-safe laser light onto the subject.
Cameras view the laser light to digitize the subject.
3-D image of the entire body. Atlanta is the 12th and final site for the project's survey team. The survey kicked off in Los Angeles in 1998 and has collected research data in several cities including, Detroit, Houston and Minneapolis. The final compilation of data will be completed by this fall. The last two sites, San Francisco and Atlanta, were chosen in an effort to meet the study's objective of having diverse populations and to specifically increase the representation of Asians, African Americans and Hispanic Americans in the research data.