TECHNOLOGIES FOR MAKING AND PURCHASING CLOTHING FOR THE DISABLED: THE BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS OF REMOTE AUTOMATED DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES
Special clothing for the disabled is a technical means of rehabilitation that increases the level of self-care of the disabled and their independence from outside help. In 1997, the technology of remote design and production of special clothing was developed and tested for the production of such clothing and providing it to disabled people living remotely from the clothing manufacturing center in order to provide ready-made products for disabled people at their place of residence (hereinafter referred to as “author’s technology”). Since then, new remote technologies for ordering, designing, manufacturing, and purchasing clothing have been introduced. Analysis of the advantages and limitations of these technologies is of interest for determining the feasibility to improve the author’s ready-made technology of manufacturing special clothing for disabled people. This article is the second in a series that examines the advantages and limitations of remote clothing design technologies. In the third (last of the series) article, the characteristics of new technologies will be compared with the author’s technology and will be determined of the solutions that, in our opinion, will be appropriate to borrow for its improvement.Aim. The aim of the article is to analyse remote technologies for designing clothing and evaluate corresponding them object-oriented functions, which are of primary importance in the manufacture of clothing for disabled people with anatomical and functional disorders of the musculoskeletal system.Materials and methods. Research material: own experience in the development and application of remote technology for the production of special clothing to disabled people; documentation, brochures, literature sources, foreign and Russian sites for remote design of clothing. Research methods: a theoretical method that includes analysis, synthesis, and analogy.Results and discussion. The analysis of Internet technologies is carried out: “Remote tailoring”, “Remote address design of clothing using 3D modeling and virtual fitting programs”, “Remote design of clothing using 3D scanning of the consumer’s figure”, “Remote design of clothing with 3D scanning of the figure and fitting on a physical mannequin”. Each of these technologies was evaluated with the implementation of the following object- oriented features depends on the quality of the product: “creating designs”, “virtual selection of the material for the model”, “virtual assessment of the fit of the model to the image of the consumer, definition of initial information for design”, “calculation and construction drawing the basic design, transform the basic design into model construction”, “optimization baseline designs”, “optimization model design”. It is revealed that none of the main types of modern remote technologies for manufacturing clothing for the population has priority for all object-oriented functions that are of primary importance in the manufacture of clothing for disabled people with anatomical and functional disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Each of these types of technologies has priority over the others for one or more of these functions.In the final, third (last of the series) article, the results of the analysis of the above types of remote automated clothing design technologies described in this (second of the series) article will be compared with the results of the analysis of technologies of Internet-stores and Internet-ateliers considered in the previous (first of the series) article. This will make it possible to identify the most important technological solutions that, in our opinion, it will be advisable to borrow to improve the author’s technology for making special functional and aesthetic clothing for disabled people.Summary. None of the main types of modern remote technologies for manufacturing clothing for the population has priority over all object-oriented functions that affect the quality of product manufacturing.Each of these types of technologies has a priority among the others for one or more object-oriented functions that affect the quality of product manufacturing and the experience of implementing them in these technologies should be studied to determine the possibility of its translation to the remote technology of manufacturing special clothing for disabled people as a technical means of rehabilitation.