TY - GEN
T1 - Comparison of manual anthropometry and a mobile digital anthropometric system
AU - Bušić, Anita
AU - Bušić, Josip
AU - Coleman, John
AU - Šimenko, Jožef
N1 - Funding Information:
The LIVE GOOD team would like to acknowledge the great contribution of Prof.Dr.Sc. Marjeta Mišigoj-Duraković in creating and testing various versions of the BodyRecog PRO digital health platform. Without her expert advice, we would not have achieved as much as we did. Her team of the Laboratory of Kinanthropometry at the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, has been exceptionally cooperative and kind to us, and it has been a great honour to work with them all. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Prof.Dr.Sc. Vladimir Medved who allowed us to use his Laboratory of Biomechanics, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, as a testing lab. His insight into technical matters has been invaluable. Much gratitude goes to the Laboratory of Biomechanics team, with a special mention of Dr.Sc. Igor Gruić who has been an avid supporter of our joint work, and Dr.Sc. Darko Katović whose statistical abilities and knowledge of scientific validation protocol has proven a truly great asset.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - With the progress of technology, new digital shape-analysis tools are being developed for use in several different fields. Innovation and market demand has pushed developers to create a portable 3D scanner. The aim of this research was to perform a comparison of a new portable measuring system for digital measurement of anthropometric dimensions of the body, with the system of manual anthropometry. The results show that the Coefficient of determination (R2) was in 7 measurements over 90%, in 6 measurements over 80%, and in 2 measurements above 74.9%. Cronbach Alpha results of compared variables were all over 90%, which show very strong expected correlations. No significant bias between measurement techniques was shown as Bland-Altman plots showed a good agreement between measurement techniques with a small number of outliers. Results provide high validity and accuracy of the new portable scanner when correctly used. However, methods of 3D body scanning and classical anthropometry should not be regarded as interchangeable as there are differences in initial body positions due to the implementation of measurement protocols. Further work is recommended to make the two methods more interchangeable, with the possible usage of corrective coefficients.
AB - With the progress of technology, new digital shape-analysis tools are being developed for use in several different fields. Innovation and market demand has pushed developers to create a portable 3D scanner. The aim of this research was to perform a comparison of a new portable measuring system for digital measurement of anthropometric dimensions of the body, with the system of manual anthropometry. The results show that the Coefficient of determination (R2) was in 7 measurements over 90%, in 6 measurements over 80%, and in 2 measurements above 74.9%. Cronbach Alpha results of compared variables were all over 90%, which show very strong expected correlations. No significant bias between measurement techniques was shown as Bland-Altman plots showed a good agreement between measurement techniques with a small number of outliers. Results provide high validity and accuracy of the new portable scanner when correctly used. However, methods of 3D body scanning and classical anthropometry should not be regarded as interchangeable as there are differences in initial body positions due to the implementation of measurement protocols. Further work is recommended to make the two methods more interchangeable, with the possible usage of corrective coefficients.
KW - Anthropometry
KW - Morphology
KW - Portable
KW - Protocol
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85107956604
U2 - 10.5220/0010178201090115
DO - 10.5220/0010178201090115
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85107956604
T3 - icSPORTS 2020 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support
SP - 109
EP - 115
BT - icSPORTS 2020 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support
A2 - Pezarat-Correia, Pedro
A2 - Vilas-Boas, Joao
A2 - Cabri, Jan
PB - SciTePress
T2 - 8th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support, icSPORTS 2020
Y2 - 5 November 2020 through 6 November 2020
ER -