The importance of ergonomics in schools – secondary technical school students’ opinion on the comfort of furniture in the classroom for computer aided design

Gligorović, Bojana; Desnica, Eleonora; Palinkas, Ivan

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/393/1/012111

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“…Without knowing or understanding on the existing ergonomics assessment, it could affect the accuracy of the data and the final design of the classroom furniture if the wrong or unsuitable ergonomics assessment is applied. Being the workplace of future workers, classrooms must be equipped with furniture that safeguards the physical wellbeing of pupils through appropriate ergonomics and the ability to adjust to their individual physical needs (Gligorović et al, 2018).…”

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A Systematic Approach Of Ergonomics Assessment Tool Selection

Shang¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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A Systematic Approach Of Ergonomics Assessment Tool Selection

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2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Children develop sitting habits at early ages of their development making it vital to inculcate good posture as early as possible (Floyd & Ward, 1969). Abysmal sitting habits developed during childhood are challenging to rectify during old age (Yeats, 1997;Gligorović et al, 2018). Several researches have been carried in numerous countries to investigate the anthropometric parameters of learners and to assess the ergonomic suitability of their classroom desk.…”

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Anthropometric assessment of classroom furniture for Ghanain school children from two socio economic areas.

Mensah,

Agyemang-Beniako,

Newton

et al. 2024

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Children spend over 80% of their school time in a seated position yet, ergonomic principles are conservatively applied on adult work places without consideration to the school environment. This study assessed the compatibility of the school furniture of kindergarten and class one pupils in the Asokore Mampong and Oforikrom Municipalities, Ghana. A cross-sectional analytic study was used. The research covered four selected basic schools from two socioeconomic suburbs (relatively high and relatively low socioeconomic areas). The participants were chosen using stratified sampling. Anthropometric data were collected from 395 healthypupils during regular class lessons. The student furniture dimensions were taken and compared with their anthropometry to identify potential match or mismatch. For all sitting anthropometric parameters, students were seated in an upright position with 90º knees and elbow flexion. The findings revealed a considerable level of discordancy between the measured furniture and the anthropometrics of the learners due to the negligence of user anthropometry during the construction of educational furniture. The seat depth was too deep for 80.51% of participants, only 15.19% had appropriate seat depth. The seat to desk height had 25.06% match, 69.11% low mismatch and 5.82% high mismatch. The match percentages of seat desk clearance, seat width and desk depth were 72.91%, 66.08% and 36.46% respectively. The match percentages of seat height were 24.61% for low socio-economic area schools and 12.25% for high socio-economic area schools. The seat height was too low for 45.55% of pupils from low socio-economic area schools and 62.25% of those from high socio-economic area schools. The seat depth was too deep for 91.62% of pupils from low socio-economic area schools and 70.10% pupils from high socio-economic area schools. The study revealed considerable incompatibility between the classroom furniture and the body dimensions of the pupils. Thus, the classroom furniture require ergonomic improvements.

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“…Children are using the Internet for longer periods of time, mobile devices and tabs to do their work. Setting up comfortable and ergonomically sound work place for children is essential for them to be able to focus one's thoughts, be efficient in the present and in the future to avoid aches and pains [1]. Ergonomics' multidisciplinary character allows it to be applied to a wide range of topics involving human performance.…”

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Preventive Recommendations to Reduce the Impact of Poor Ergonomics on Children during Online Learning

Meshram

Tembhare

Taksande

et al. 2021

JPRI

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The term 'ergonomics' and 'human factors' are interchangeable, 'ergonomics' is generally used in regard to physical features of the workplace, such as workstations and control panels, whilst 'human factors' is generally used in regard to the larger system in which people co-operate. This COVID 19 pandemic impact make the children to stay at home only and government of India has been supported the online education for the children and because of that change the whole learning system in India. While attending the classes at home mostly the parents don’t have that much knowledge regarding ergonomics to prevent the lot of physical as well as mental health problems, impact of poor ergonomics kids faced lot of problems like headache, back pain, knee pain, eye irritation etc as we called as repetitive strain injuries and musculoskeletal health has been deteriorated. Conclusion: Parents and teachers do not appear to involve schoolchildren in conversations about safe computing behaviors, which might be due to their own lack of understanding of computer ergonomics and also the impact of COVID 19 Pandemic drastically affect the children’s schooling and have to learn at home through the online education system. Ergonomic education should also include into the school curriculum as future necessity.

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The importance of ergonomics in schools – secondary technical school students’ opinion on the comfort of furniture in the classroom for computer aided design

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

A Systematic Approach Of Ergonomics Assessment Tool Selection

A Systematic Approach Of Ergonomics Assessment Tool Selection

Anthropometric assessment of classroom furniture for Ghanain school children from two socio economic areas.

Preventive Recommendations to Reduce the Impact of Poor Ergonomics on Children during Online Learning

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