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Analysis of 3D Facial Shapes of Female Adult to Improve Face Mask Fit

  • Choi, Jin (Dept. of Clothing and Textiles, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Do, Wol Hee (Dept. of Clothing and Textiles, Chonnam National University)
  • Received : 2020.11.02
  • Accepted : 2020.12.31
  • Published : 2020.12.31
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Abstract

When it is necessary to wear masks for long periods, such as during the current COVID-19 pandemic, the essential function of masks to prevent contamination (or transmission to others) as well as comfortableness are important. For this study, we used three-dimensional (3D) facial measurements of adult women to compile basic face shape data for designing comfortable and effective masks. This study analyzed the 3D facial data of 127 subjects in their 20s to 30s of the 6th Size Korea. Factor analysis of the survey data produced seven factors that formed the composition of adult female faces. These factors combined to produce three facial types: square (long face and a large lower middle face), oval (smallest central and lower body in the middle), and triangle (short face with a small central and lower large nose). These types reflect that the facial types of adult women show the differences in the nose angle, nose length, bitragion-subnasal arc, bitragion-menton arc. Therefore, properly fitting masks for fine dust particle filtration require 3D customization of a mask's breathing apparatus to fit differently shaped central and lower face parts that interfere with mask fit.

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