User:Susan.p.ashdown

I am the Helen G. Canoyer Professor in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design at Cornell University, where I have taught for 25 years. My research group, the Cornell Body Scan Research Group, was started in the year 2000 with the purchase of a Human Solutions Vitus 3D body scanner. The research group currently uses two scanners to explore the interactions between apparel design and technology, and the changes that are occurring in the way that apparel is designed, produced, and distributed using new and developing technologies. We research issues in anthropometric measures (including anthropometry of the active body and body shape analysis), patternmaking, grading, interactions of materials and design, assessment of fit, automated custom fit, mass customization, virtual fit, and the development and use of half scale dress forms. Our work can be found in over sixty papers published in refereed journals and as book chapters.

I authored (with a lot of help from others!) the Wikipedia page on Susan Margaret Watkins. I was Professor Watkins' masters level student, and her colleague at Cornell before she retired.