报告人：Shuping Xiong (PhD. Candidate), Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  
 
报告题目：Foot-feature based shoe customization    
 
时间：12月25日（星期二）下午2: 00～3: 00  
 
地点：工业工程系会议室，舜德楼北510  
 
参加人员：欢迎感兴趣的教师和学生准时参加  
 
报告摘要：

Previous studies have shown that ill-fitting shoes are the primary cause of various foot disorders. In the shoemaking industry, the shoe is categorized by the length (sometimes the length and width) for the consumer to select. However, to select a pair of shoes to fit a person’s feet, the fitting should include more than just foot length since different people have different foot shapes (wide vs. narrow; slim vs. fat; high-arched vs. low- arched) and requirements, even though they may have the same foot length. Often, a customized shoe is desired. In the traditional shoe manufacturing system, to make a pair of customized shoes is expensive, time-consuming and complicated due to constraints imposed by manual measuring of several dimensions of a specific foot and manual manufacturing of a shoe last to fit the specific foot dimensions through a trial-and-error approach. Therefore, there is a need for a new design and manufacturing system to make customized shoes.

In this presentation, a new CAD system for designing and manufacturing customized shoes is proposed and described, based on the consumer’s preferred shoe style and his/her own foot features. This system consists of three modules. The first module is automatic extraction of important foot features (18 key foot dimensions and one key parameter for foot-type classification) from a laser-scanned customer’s foot. The second module is a grading approach that can automatically deform the base shoe last of the customer’s preferred style to the customized shoe last based on the extracted foot features from the first module. The third module is a color-coded map for final evaluation of the match between the customer’s foot and the customized shoe last constructed from the second module. The effectiveness of the system will be demonstrated as well.  

With the continuous improvements to this CAD system, it can be applied to the shoemaking industry to design and manufacture a pair of fashionable and well-fitting customized shoes for the consumer in a short time and with reasonable cost, thus achieving a high satisfaction level from customers as well as commercial success.