The clothing and footwear market is ever more global and competitive, with innovation as a fundamental factor in improving business competitiveness. At the Instituto de Biomecánica (IBV), we help our clients develop innovative products based on users’ needs and our knowledge of biomechanics, ergonomics, anthropometry and comfort.
Our work in 3-D modelling of the human body has enabled us to develop new foot and body scanning technologies with a smartphone or portable device, thereby fostering applications such as those for size recommendations and customisation.
We generate scientific knowledge to help our clients carry out R&D projects to boost their lines of innovation for products and services.
Our key areas are: recording the user’s measurements and shapes for their clothes and footwear to fit better, developing new scanning and size designation technologies, biomechanics, thermal comfort, usability, performance, customisation of footwear and clothing, and people-centred design methods, from which we extract information about the end users’ needs and expectations.
Based on prior scientific knowledge, we carry out consultancy projects for companies in the clothing, footwear and components industry at any stage of the development process for products and services.
Our range can be tailored to each client’s needs, from the initial phase of detecting user needs and preferences up to strategically defining the product, developing prototypes, choosing new materials and even comprehensively re-designing the product.
We carry out functional evaluation and comfort tests for clothing, footwear and their components, tailored to our clients’ needs.
We have our own methods that simulate the user’s interaction with the products, as well as tests that enable users to evaluate the clothing, footwear and their components in real conditions of use.
We provide training tailored to the client’s needs as regards aspects related to the study of gait and the feet, biomechanical and anthropometric techniques, with functional and design aspects of clothing and footwear, as well as customisation.
Consumer digitalisation is essential for improvement in online sales processes, progress in systems for fitting and choosing size, and in developing products more suited to each person’s anthropometry, thus enabling greater customisation.
Using our technologies for 3D scanning and modelling and 4D motion analysis, we respond to such needs in the clothing and footwear industry.
3D avatar body
An app to record the 3D shape of the user’s body using two photos,
allowing the user to be easily digitalized.
An app to record the 3D shape of a foot with only three photos. Easily integrated into design processes for footwear or online sales.
DOMEscan/IBV
The best digital foot scanner on the market for retail. In just a few seconds it generates a digital reconstruction of the foot’s shape and calculates its measurements.
Solutions to create
3D avatars
Advanced technology to analyse the body’s 3D shape, posture and movement.
MOVE 4D
High-speed body scanner enabling garments’ behaviour to be evaluated in a real environment with a user.
MOVE 4D
High-speed 4D body scanner enabling garments’ behaviour to be evaluated in a real environment with a user.
