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Impact of Seat and Back Angle Settings on Seating Furniture Quality: An Experimental Study

Published:2023-06-30 Issue: Volume:122 Page:73-81
ISSN:1898-5912
Container-title:Annals of WULS, Forestry and Wood Technology
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Short-container-title:Annals of WULS - SGGW. Forestry and Wood Technology

Author:

Skorupińska Ewa¹^ORCID,Wiaderek Krzysztof²^ORCID,Sydor Maciej¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Woodworking and Fundamentals of Machine Design, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-637 Poznań, Poland

2. Department of Furniture Design, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-637 Poznań, Poland

Abstract

Impact of Seat and Back Angle Settings on Seating Furniture Quality: An Experimental Study. The fundamental measure of the quality of seating furniture is seating comfort. Sitting comfort is described in the literature by the discomfort coefficient D, calculated from the pressure values and distribution measured between the human body and a sitting furniture "body support system". The work aims to experimentally verify the influence of selected anthropometric features on sitting comfort. The research was carried out on 12 people using a piezoelectric sensor mat and a model of adjustable sitting furniture. The study investigated how different seat and backrest inclination variants impact pressure distribution. The test results are the values of the contact pressures and discomfort coefficients D for nine combinations of the backrest and seat inclination related to the anthropometric characteristics of the tested group of people. The results indicate that anthropometric factors, such as body mass index (BMI) and user gender, significantly impact objective seating comfort. These findingswill help optimize the seating furniture dimensions at their design stage

Publisher

Index Copernicus

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://wulsannals.com/gicid/pdf/01.3001.0053.8670

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