TY - GEN
T1 - Center of pressure variations in high-heeled shoes
AU - Weerasinghe, Thilina W.
AU - Goonetilleke, Ravindra S.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The way in which a person's foot contacts a shoe surface can have short-term and long-term effects on the whole body. Most previous research on footwear has been carried out using commercially available shoes, and as a result the surface of the shoe with which the foot interacts has not been systematically investigated. A recent invention has allowed the design parameters of a shoe to be investigated. The wedge angle and midfoot conditions were varied, and their effects were modeled with psychophysical relationships. The results show that perceived feelings are closely related to the location of the center of pressure.
AB - The way in which a person's foot contacts a shoe surface can have short-term and long-term effects on the whole body. Most previous research on footwear has been carried out using commercially available shoes, and as a result the surface of the shoe with which the foot interacts has not been systematically investigated. A recent invention has allowed the design parameters of a shoe to be investigated. The wedge angle and midfoot conditions were varied, and their effects were modeled with psychophysical relationships. The results show that perceived feelings are closely related to the location of the center of pressure.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=81855185874&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1071181311551342
DO - 10.1177/1071181311551342
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:81855185874
SN - 9780945289395
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 1640
EP - 1643
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 55th Annual Meeting, HFES 2011
T2 - 55th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, HFES 2011
Y2 - 19 September 2011 through 23 September 2011
ER -