TY - GEN
T1 - Study of the Furniture Used for Students in a Peruvian University
AU - Corrales, Cesar
AU - Atoche, Wilmer
AU - Rojas, Jonatan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The furniture used by students in schools and universities is usually purchased in average dimensions so that all male and female students, small and large, use them without distinction. It is very difficult to find furniture that fits the dimensions of each individual and it is common to work with molds or patterns that come from other countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the percentage of the university population that cannot use comfortably said furniture, for which tables and chairs recently bought in a new classroom building of a Peruvian university were taken into account. For this, and in order not to use anthropometers, a methodology was proposed that allows students to find the dimensions based on their height. Additionally, the weight of the same students is taken into account, that is, with only two variables, very easy to determine, a more complex study can be done. The most significant result is that a percentage close to 40% of students, have difficulty sitting and using the tables in the classrooms, so their health could be at risk, due to the large number of hours they can spend using the chairs and tables in their classrooms. The results can be used as a basis to have anthropometric data of the students of this university and also to be able to determine the dimensions of furniture, instruments, machines to be used by them.
AB - The furniture used by students in schools and universities is usually purchased in average dimensions so that all male and female students, small and large, use them without distinction. It is very difficult to find furniture that fits the dimensions of each individual and it is common to work with molds or patterns that come from other countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the percentage of the university population that cannot use comfortably said furniture, for which tables and chairs recently bought in a new classroom building of a Peruvian university were taken into account. For this, and in order not to use anthropometers, a methodology was proposed that allows students to find the dimensions based on their height. Additionally, the weight of the same students is taken into account, that is, with only two variables, very easy to determine, a more complex study can be done. The most significant result is that a percentage close to 40% of students, have difficulty sitting and using the tables in the classrooms, so their health could be at risk, due to the large number of hours they can spend using the chairs and tables in their classrooms. The results can be used as a basis to have anthropometric data of the students of this university and also to be able to determine the dimensions of furniture, instruments, machines to be used by them.
KW - Furniture
KW - Human factors
KW - Physical ergonomics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85088597448
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-51549-2_45
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-51549-2_45
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088597448
SN - 9783030515485
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 341
EP - 347
BT - Advances in Physical, Social and Occupational Ergonomics - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, Social and Occupational Ergonomics and Cross-Cultural Decision Making
A2 - Karwowski, Waldemar
A2 - Goonetilleke, Ravindra S.
A2 - Xiong, Shuping
A2 - Goossens, Richard H.M.
A2 - Murata, Atsuo
PB - Springer
T2 - AHFE Virtual Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, the Virtual Conference on Social and Occupational Ergonomics, and the Virtual Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making, 2020
Y2 - 16 July 2020 through 20 July 2020
ER -