In Her Shoes

"I'm Man Enough: Are You?": The Queer (Im)Possibilities of Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

"I'm Man Enough; Are You?": The Queer (Im)possibilities of Walk A Mile In Her Shoes

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is a staple national program that engages college males in sexual violence prevention on many college campuses. In this manuscript, I use queer theory and crip theory—a conceptual framework that merges queer and critical disability theory—to explore both the positive outcomes and potential harm done in the production and implementation of this event. I conclude the manu...

Mass customization of shoes by automatically finding best-fitting shoes

How to meet the technological challenges of designing customized products? Typical customer products, such as shoes, seem to have a simple product structure and a quite low level of complexity. At least if one considers products, such as cars or airplanes. Modern truck factories customize and manufacture trucks, just in time and without being one truck similar to the other. How about shoes? Sho...

Parasitic Power Harvesting in Shoes

system to date has served all of the needs of wearable computing—light weight, minimum effort, high power generation, convenient power delivery, and good power regulation. We believe that our approach has the potential to solve these problems for a class of wearable devices by placing both the generator and powered electronics in a location where considerable energy is easily available, namely ...

Shoes influence in women posture.

One of the most prevalent aspects is women with complaints of discomfort in the lumbar region for the use of high heeled shoe. Authors described that there may be a relation between attitude and the present discomfort, often associated with muscular fatigue and increase the forces of reaction soil during the use of such footwear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate possible changes postur...