The color coding represents how well shoes would fit if lasts were uniformly scaled from a single sample size: 🟢 Green = perfect fit 🔵 Blue = loose fit 🔴 Red = tight fit Does your shoe last grading account for the natural changes in children’s foot shape?

Children’s feet change shape significantly as they grow. Small children’s feet are proportionally wider and higher compared to teenagers' feet. This animation visualizes the average 3D foot shape across all children’s sizes, based on 10,000 foot scans per size.

It’s been a great pleasure collaborating with Danish researchers and podiatrists on this study! Excited to share our findings, and there’s even more to come from the data we’ve collected. Stay tuned for future papers!

Curious about how data-driven insights can transform your footwear development? Connect with us to explore the possibilities! 🚀

Footwear brands like adidas, Lululemon, On, Vivobarefoot, and Aldo are already leveraging our database of over 50 million 3D foot scans and our expertise to enhance the fit of their shoes. 📈💡

At Volumental, we're proud to support groundbreaking research like this, providing scanning technology and data analysis expertise every step of the way. Stay tuned for more insights from 'The Shoe Effect' study!

A huge shout-out to our partners from My Foot Function and Wyde Footwear for their invaluable contributions in collecting 3D foot data for this study. 🙌

Some participants wear footwear every day, while others go barefoot - and we've uncovered significant differences in the big toe angle between these two groups.

👟 Did you know that wearing footwear can actually change the shape of your feet? Check out these fascinating foot scans from 'The Shoe Effect' study conducted in Sri Lanka, powered by Volumental!

It's exciting to be part of this transformation, where data intersects with design principles to redefine shoe development.

His talk, "Running Shoe Research Methods, Errors, and New Paradigms," shed light on crucial aspects of #footwearbiomechanics During the Q&A, Prof. Nigg emphasized the need for advancements in footwear fit research—a sentiment aligned with my own work here at @Volumental

Recently, I had the privilege of attending Prof. Benno Nigg's presentation at the The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), where he was recognized as an Honorary Doctor.

For him, our research findings confirm why brands must make multiple widths in all core styles… a single shoe width cannot accommodate the diverse foot shapes of individuals with the same shoe size.

The Development Director of one of the world's iconic footwear brands just told me that he refers to our 2019 study, published in Nature - Scientific Reports, as his "foot bible" and he ensures that everyone on his development team reads it. https://t.co/8nrQ27T8F6

If analysis yields unexpected results, visualizing the data is a great first step towards understanding why

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Articles like this give me motivation to keep researching https://t.co/NjEbNcQZIi

Our conference paper has been published in Footwear Science. I will be presenting the paper at the Footwear Biomechanics Symposium in Osaka on June 26-28 Feel free to DM me if you would like to get access to the paper. https://t.co/YL4lISF2kR

I'm fortunate to be using the World's largest database of 3D foot scans for our research. The dataset enables us to study foot shapes and footwear fit parameters at the level that was not possible before. https://t.co/0mQsTv8plJ via @Yahoo

Fit specialists working with these two fit testers know that their heel widths are far from the average foot, which helps them understand the fit evaluations of these fit testers, and use their feedback properly to develop great fitting shoes.