Anthropometry of the Singaporean and Indonesian population
This research collected anthropometric data of Singaporean and Indonesian persons. Thirty five (35) measurements as specified by Pheasant and Haslegrave (2006) were collected. The data from student subjects from a university in Singapore and a university in Indonesia. Two-hundred and forty five male and 132 female students from Indonesia, and 138 male and 57 female students from Singapore participated. This paper presents comparisons of anthropometric characteristics among the two populations, i.e., Singaporean and Indonesian, providing descriptive statistics in means, standard deviations, and percentile values of both population groups. Based on mean calculations, Singaporeans (both male and female) tend to have larger dimensions than Indonesians. The statistical results show that more than fifty percent of the dimensions have significant differences in mean, i.e., 20 out of 35 for male and 20 out of 35 for female. Both Singaporean males and females have the same significant mean difference in the dimensions of, stature, eye height, elbow height, hip height, sitting height, thigh thickness, buttock-knee length, popliteal height, abdominal depth, head length, and elbow span. In addition, in order to analyze whether there is a significant difference between old and new data, the current Singaporean anthropometric data were compared with the older existing Singaporean anthropometric data. Previous data is available from anthropometry research conducted at the Nanyang Technological Institute (Lim et al., 1990). Twenty five body dimensions were compared. By using statistical tests, the result showed that more than 70％ of dimensions have significant differences for both the male or female data. The result shows that current data of body dimensions tends to be larger than old data. In providing an example of possible applications, the body mass index (BMI) of Singaporeans and Indonesians is provided. BMI is a comparison of a persons weight and height. It is a useful tool to predict a healthy body weight based on how tall a person is. It is able to give a description of health of Singaporeans and Indonesians. The results of the BMI were 22.617 for Singaporean male, 22.211 for Indonesian male, 21.43 for Singaporean female and 21.76 for Indonesian female. All results show that both populations have normal indexes since they are located at the normal range of BMI from 18.5 々 25.0 (WHO, 2008). For further research and utilization of the anthropometric data, it needs to discuss the implications for product and anthropometric system design in so far as variations in human body dimensions are concerned.
Anthropometry Body Mass Indez (BMI) Singaporean Indonesian
Tan Kay Chuan Markus Hartono
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-4
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）