Using AI to ensure children’s shoes are a perfect fit
As the father of three young children, Alan Power is no stranger to the difficulties of buying children’s shoes. Having been frustrated by the buying process once too often, he decided to use his skills in engineering and mobile app development to create SizeWise, an AI-based sizing solution that allows parents scan their child’s foot using a smartphone.
“With such variation from brand to brand, shoe size on its own is not enough, which is why SizeWise also recommends ideal footwear for the scanned foot,” Hoka Sneakers Power says. “Two out of three children are wearing footwear that is too small for them which can have long-term health implications. However, because a child doesn’t know any better, they generally don’t complain about it.”
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