Trinny and Susannah's Body Shape Measurement

For a long time I'm thinking about the how could I encourage the user to input their personal body shape data for interaction.  Transitional solution is to ask the user to measure the BWH(breast, waist, hip) number, but it's kind of inconvenient do to this cold hard fact.

After the meeting with Ms. Stevenson,  I began to look back to the lessons by Trinny & Susanah, and find this lovely quiz. I think it's easier to animate and interacte using these measurement. Later I will do an experiment on it.

The Data I Will Collect and Their Interaction

As my project is an experiment of information graphic, it's certain that data will play an important role in it. To find out the user's preference of dressing, we need data of fashion, such as body shapes, colors, occasions and personal styles.

I have posted several blogs about these fashion definitions, so here I will focus on the measurement of the data. I did some search in the library, but wasn't able to find any clear tool of this. So I have to get some information from the internet, and I was glad to find a website named 'the chic fashionista' which offers many useful way to measure the body shape and so on. Here's the data I will use in my project:

• For Body Shape(Summarize from HOW TO TAKE ACCURATE BODY MEASUREMENTS  )

1. Shoulder Line: A straight line from one outer edge to the other;

2. Bust Line: Around the fullest part of the chest;

3. Waist Line: Around the narrowest part of the torso, avoid holding breath;

4. Hips Line: Around the widest part of the hips, with feet close together;

5. Rise: A line from natural waist down to crotch;

6. Inseam: Crotch to the inside of ankle.

Interaction: The user should be able to input these data and let the future website to calculate their body shape, or they could just choose the body shape from the 5 images we offer.

• For Occasions

The different kinds of Occasions have been summarized in the blog occasions.

Interaction: The user should be able to choose the occasion from a list of images or small animations.

• For Colors(Summarize from SEASONAL COLOR ANALYSIS)

1. The quality of skin tone;
2. The color of hair;
3. The color of eyes;

Interaction: A cute face should be offer on the website that users could choose the color of their skin, hair and eyes from a list and the face will change according to their options.

• For Styles(Summarize from Fashion Style Quiz)

1. Options: classic, trendy, dramatic, eclectic, romantic, Bohemian, sporty, urban;
Interaction: All of these styles could be chosen from a list of cute animations.

• For Registration and Login

1. User name(Neccesary);
2. Password(Neccesary)
3. Email(Neccesary)
4. Age(Optional)
5. Job(Optional)

Interaction: The user name and email should be check in real time from the database, job could be picked up from a provided list.

All these datas should be saved in a database, use the username name as the key, to produce a profile for the users.