The design of products for the 21st Century will be based on the data that is currently being collected. Measurements and three-dimensional scanning will be taken at Georgia Tech's Centennial Research Building at the corner of Tenth Street and Dalney. The process takes about one hour and in appreciation, participants will receive a copy of their body measurements and a printout of their 3-D whole body scan. 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 twelfth and final site for the project's survey team. In 1998, the survey kicked off in Los Angeles and has collected research data in several cities including, Detroit, Houston, and Minneapolis. The final compilation of the 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 a wide range of diverse populations and to specifically increase the representation of Asians, African Americans, and Hispanics in the research data .