The Effect of Shoe Materials and the Ratio of Moisture Content between Shoe and Skin on Wear

• Project/Area Number: 11680124
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 家政学一般(含衣・住環境)
• Research Institution: Showa Women's Junior College
• Principal Investigator: MITSUI Michiko Showa Women's Junior College Assistant professor, 助教授 (40106092)
• Project Period (FY): 1999 – 2000
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000); Fiscal Year 2000: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
• Keywords: Shoe / shoe materials / temperature and humidity / thermalsensation / sense of sweating / microclimate between shoe and skin / sense of soaking / comfort sensation

Research Abstract

The effect of shoe materials and moisture content on wear comfort while walking and resting has been studied by the experiment using natural and artificial leather shoe. Temperature and absolute humidity between the first and the second toe were the highest. Temperature and absolute humidity between the first and the second toe, and those on the skin face at the arch of the foot had a significant difference. The significant difference was found in those between the first and the second toe, and those on the stocking at the arch of the foot. In the case of wearing leather and artificial leather shoe, temperature, absolute humidity, thermal sensation, sense of sweating, sense of soaking and discomfort sensation, these four kinds of subjective sensations were about the same. There was high connection between those subjective sensations and the moisture content between the first and the second toe. The moisture content of shoe was related to the covering ratio of shoe.
Wearing propaties of natural and artificial leather shoe were about the same under medium temperature and absolute humidity.