• DocumentCode
    538104
  • 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
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    17-19 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    633
  • Lastpage
    638
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CAIDCD.2010.5681270
  • Filename
    5681270