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EVALUATION OF ERGONOMIC DESIGN OF DESK AND CHAIR FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN ERBIL CITY |
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| Creator | Rawaz Najmaddin Abdullah, Adeeb Noori Ahmad |
| Title | EVALUATION OF ERGONOMIC DESIGN OF DESK AND CHAIR FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN ERBIL CITY |
| Contributor | - |
| Publisher | TuEngr.com |
| Publication Year | 2563 |
| Journal Title | International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies |
| Journal Vol. | 11 |
| Journal No. | 6 |
| Page no. | 11A06T: 1-10 |
| Keyword | Ergonomic for pupils, Classroom furniture, Elementary schools, Human factors, Ergonomic furniture, Anthropometric measures, Physical ergonomics. |
| URL Website | https://tuengr.com/Vol11_6.html |
| Website title | ITJEMAST V10(6) @ TuEngr.com |
| ISSN | 2228-9860 |
| Abstract | Classroom ergonomic chairs and desks are important elements for students in terms of comfort and concentration in the schooling environment. This is very important for pupils that spent most of the time in classroom furniture. Most of the furniture is not able to fit for different ages students in different body figures in the classroom in some primary schools in Erbil city. This study evaluates the existing school furniture ergonomically as compared to students? anthropometric measures, i.e., examining if dimensions of primary school furniture agree with pupils' anthropometric measures for first to sixth graders. Anthropometric dimensions in eight schools for 487 students of grades 1-6 were measured, and their data were analyzed via IBM(R)SPSS Statistical Package and MS Excel(R). The results showed that group of grades 1-3 pupils have major mismatch accordance to the anthropometric measures (sitting elbow height, stature, sitting shoulder height, popliteal height, knee height, buttock-popliteal length, shoulder breadth, hip breadth, and upper limb length) and classroom furniture dimensions more than group of grades 4-6. |
