Buying minimalistic shoes does not mean that you know how to use them. Salespersons are rarely competent to give adequate advice how to transition to new shoes. The same happens when someone chooses to run barefoot. So, the aim of the present experiment was to find out whether giving or not giving an explanation of the correct technique of foot placement in barefoot running and running in a min...

Production efficiency of a sewing machine process has a direct influence on production efficiency of a related shoe factory. Because there are many upper-making processes with complicated techniques, it is essential to arrange and optimize the upper-making process. Through the research on both action and time of these processes, this paper shows examples that illustrate how to analyze the techn...

This paper does a brief introduction on B2B2C e-commerce, network structure, network relationship and the growth of e-commerce firm. Then it sets a theoretical framework and uses case study to explore the impact of firm’s network on the growth of B2B2C e-commerce firms involving retail, travel and shoes industries. The result of case studies indicates that firm’s network structure and firm’s gr...

In this paper, we present a shoe suggestion system for children. The system stores the database about children’s shoes from K1-K3 and P1-P3. The attributes considered are types of shoes, shoe sizes, brands. Given a type of children foot and age, the system suggested the type of shoes, brands, and sizes with the confidence level. The system uses the data mining technique for the classification a...

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...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of acute whole-body vibration (WBV) on static and dynamic balance and flexibility. Eight female and eight male, mean age 25 ± 3 years, college students volunteered to participate in the study. In randomized cross-over study design, participants were assigned to complete four treatment conditions: shoes + CONTROL (CON), shoes + WBV, no shoes ...

PURPOSE This study investigated the influence of long-term wearing of unstable shoes (WUS) on compensatory postural adjustments (CPA) to an external perturbation. METHODS Participants were divided into two groups: one wore unstable shoes while the other wore conventional shoes for 8 weeks. The ground reaction force signal was used to calculate the anterior-posterior (AP) displacement of the c...

A within-subject comparative study of walking while wearing low-heeled sports shoes versus high-heeled dress shoes was performed to identify and describe changes in lower-extremity joint kinetics associated with wearing high-heeled shoes during level overground walking. A volunteer sample of 15 unimpaired female subjects recruited from the local community underwent quantitative measurement of s...

Humans have been running for millions of years, but the modern running shoe was not invented until the 1970s. However, in the span of just 4 decades, this novel type of footwear with a heavily cushioned, elevated heel; arch support; and a stiffened midsole (“traditional shoe”) has altered running biomechanics and changed the way people run. Investigators contend that because of this shift to tr...