Title :
Application study of ergonomics on college apartments´ unit furniture
Author :
Ruan Lu-ning ; Wang Hui
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Nanchang Univ., Nanchang, China
Abstract :
At present, university students are a major concern in our society. Student apartment is the main place for both living and resting. The design of apartments´ unit furniture not only have great influence on life quality of students, but also have important meaning towards students´ body and mind health. This paper takes Nanchang University as an example, analyzes the present situation of student apartment´s unit furniture, and find out design flaws of unit furniture. Methods: the data of height are obtained by taking 240 students in Nanchang University at random. Using statistical software-SPSS, we can carry out statistical analysis on the data of height and get the statistical data of the students´ height. According to design flaws of present unit furniture, we provide some suggestion based on human factors engineering. The object is designing apartments´ unit furniture of humanity for students´ living and resting and providing comfortable studying environment for students.
Keywords :
design engineering; ergonomics; furniture; human factors; statistical analysis; Nanchang University; college apartment unit furniture; design flaws; human factor engineering; statistical software; Educational institutions; Humans; Human factors engineering; Student apartment; Unit furniture;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Aided Industrial Design & Conceptual Design (CAIDCD), 2010 IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yiwu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7973-3
DOI :
10.1109/CAIDCD.2010.5681270