Seated Knee Contours

I recently completed a small study for General Motors examining the distribution of knee contours. The possibility of inadvertent activation of controls located near the knees can be reduced by recessing the controls. This study used 3D scans of knees obtained in previous studies to estimate the distribution of knee penetration into holes of various sizes. The results were evaluated by comparison to a small manually gathered convenience sample. To our knowledge this is the first systematic analysis of knee "pointiness" and a fun application of our vast amount of 3D human shape data.