SizeChina is a 3D anthropometric research project at the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University specialises in professional education in Hong Kong. The University’s teaching units are grouped under six faculties and two schools; the Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Construction and Environment, Faculty of...

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It is also referred to as SizeChina.com.www.sizechina.com

The purpose of the research project is to "create the first-ever digital database of Chinese head and face shapes".
It was created in response to the lack of information about Chinese head sizes and shapes, and the fact that most products designed for the head or face are based on Western face shapes.

The results from the SizeChina project are invaluable to industries such as medical, optical, entertainment and sports, all those concerned with headgear such as sunglasses, helmets, sanitary face masks, etc.
As this database, and the models created from it, provides information on Chinese features, the market will start creating the first China fit products.The first product designed using the SizeChina data, a military/police goggle, has been commercialized.

The database is compiled of data from digital scanning equipment based on people from six different regions in the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

; Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

, Lanzhou

Lanzhou

Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. A prefecture-level city, it is a key regional transportation hub, allowing areas further west to maintain railroad connections to the eastern half of the country....

, Chongqing

Chongqing

Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...

, Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

, and Shenyang

Shenyang

Shenyang , or Mukden , is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Currently holding sub-provincial administrative status, the city was once known as Shengjing or Fengtianfu...

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The Director of this project is Dr.Roger Ball

Roger Ball

Roger Ball is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in the School of Design and the Leader of Master of Design Practices and the Asian Ergonomics Lab....

, an accomplished Industrial Designer and Design Professor. He won the 2009 Presidents Award for Research at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University