Anthropometric data is important and necessary in industry, and it is applied into various fields, such as clothing, furniture, kitchen, bathroom, countertops, entertainment facilities, architectural design, transportation, and military equipment…etc., must be designed according to the size of human body. In addition to the application in industrial design, clothing design, human factors engineering and other fields, anthropometric data can be further applied to ergonomic design, health care, medical research, epidemiology and epidemiology. Because of the changes in lifestyles and nutritional intakes, the characteristics of the human body may change, such as the increase in obesity. Therefore, it is necessary to establish current anthropometric database and update them regularly, it is expected to link the anthropometric data to relative medicine.
In application, anthropometry database should include both static and dynamic categories, so as to provide comprehensive and complete information to various fields in order to design or plan suitable appliances and environment for our citizen, thereby to raise the quality of life and to ensure the safety of work or leisure time.
Most of the research about anthropometry focused on adults. However, body structure change rapidly in the period from infant to adolescence, it is indeed necessary to survey anthropometric characteristics of children. The safety facilities in playground and school, such as the height of stair, the intervals of guardrails…etc., are concerned by parents. The government should set new standards to reduce the risks of injury, however, there is still lacks of sufficient and objective data to judge the advantage and disadvantage of the current standard. Children grow rapidly so that the height, weight, and body proportion also vary greatly. Because anthropometric data of adults is not suitable to be applied to children, it is indeed necessary to establish an anthropometric database for children.