Design and Fabrication of Convertible Rods for Chair

Siddhant Tiwari

doi:10.54060/a2zjournals.jmce.81

Authors

Siddhant Tiwari Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54060/a2zjournals.jmce.81

Keywords:

Prototype, Base rod

Abstract

Ergonomics is the study of how humans interrelate with their environment in which they do their physical work. Ergonomics is a very less discussed topic. Chairs is one of the major parts of the field of ergonomics. In this article, numerous papers were re- viewed and tried to explain the evolution of chairs. It has been found that new and innovative inventions in the field of chairs for providing maximum comfort to humans and detecting their wrong postures using various types of sensors and different types of fabrics were effective. It also proposed an idea of making chairs convertible, more efficient and taking less space.

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