Roger Maclaren Ball博士、教授，美国佐治亚理工学院-工业设计学院教授，曾任佐治亚理工工业设计系副主任、香港理工大学“亚洲人机工程实验室”主任等，长期从事与人体适配相关的产品设计，为Google、Facebook、Microsoft、Philips、Magic Leap、Luxottica、Cartier、Decathlon、3M、Neurosky、华为等数十家国际知名公司提供人机设计咨询服务。其主持的人类测量学工程项目“SizeChina（中国尺码）”建立了世界上第一个中国人头尺寸数据库，为一系列“China Fit”（适配中国人的）产品设计创造了坚实的基础。该研究先后获得2008年美国商业周刊的IDEA “Best in Show”杰出设计奖（与苹果iPhone分享该奖项）、2012 年国际工业设计联合会（ICSID）的世界设计突破奖等多项国际顶级设计奖。近年来，Roger Ball教授及其团队致力于SizeChina及相关人因研究成果的持续创新。时至今日，该数据库仍然为世界上时效性最新、采样最广泛、特征最丰富、拟合精度最高的中国3D人头数据库，为全球头部可穿戴产品设计和人机工程学分析提供了全面支持。他指导我院师生团队于2017-2018年进行了新一轮人头数据测量和技术升级，并为我院引进全球顶尖的高精度3D耳道扫描技术，可实现快速实时采集和重建耳廓与耳道的三维信息，并构建3D全耳的形态数据库。
Dr. Roger Maclaren Ball, Professor of Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Industrial Design, USA. He used to be the deputy director of Department of Industrial Design of Georgia Tech, and director of the "Asian Ergonomics Laboratory" of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has long been engaged in product design related to human body adaptation. For Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Philips, Magic Leap, Luxottica, Cartier, Decathlon, 3M, Neurosky, Huawei and dozens of international well-known companies, he provided his consulting services in human-computer design. “SizeChina”, the anthropometrics project he led, created the world's first Chinese human head size database, creating a solid foundation for a series of "China Fit" product designs. The “SizeChina” research has won many international top design awards, including the 2008 Business Week IDEA "Best in Show" Outstanding Design Award (shared with Apple iPhone) and the 2012 The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) World Design Breakthrough Award. In recent years, professor Roger Ball and his team have focused on the continuous innovation of SizeChina and related human factors research results. Up to now, the database is still the most up-to-date, sampled, featured and accurate Chinese 3D head database in the world, and provides comprehensive support for global wearable head product design and ergonomics analysis. He guided the faculty and students’ team of our school to conduct a new round of head data measurement and technology upgrading in 2017-2018 and introduced the world's top high-precision 3D ear canal scanning technology to our school, which can realize the rapid real-time collection and reconstruction of three-dimensional information of auricle and ear canal, and build the 3D morphology database of the whole ear.
