Shoes for Children

Children Shoes Suggestion System Using Data Mining

We present a prototype web application for children shoes suggestion. We are interested in attributes of foot and shoes that can comfort the children’s feet. The key attributes are types of shoes, size, and brands. For the feet, there are width, length, thickness, sole curve, toe and others. The application has the database that stores these children shoes and foot characteristics for training....

Ground reaction forces for children running in different shoes

Power generation of the midfoot in children wearing sports shoes

Methods Twenty children performed five walking and running trials at a self-selected velocity while barefoot and wearing a common sports shoe. Footwear testing order was randomised. A 14 camera motion analysis system was used to calculate retro-reflective marker trajectories at 200Hz. Markers were attached to the leg and to the foot through holes in the shoe to measure three-dimensional motion ...

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...

Corrective shoes and inserts as treatment for flexible flatfoot in infants and children.

We performed a prospective study to determine whether flexible flatfoot in children can be influenced by treatment. One hundred and twenty-nine children who had been referred by pediatricians, and for whom the radiographic findings met the criteria for flatfoot, were randomly assigned to one of four groups: Group I, controls; Group II, treatment with corrective orthopaedic shoes; Group III, tre...