DESIGNING AND FABRICATING A TABLOID CHAIR FOR STUDENTS FOCUSING ON ERGONICS

Ergonomics is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of the interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theoretical principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well being and overall system performance. In this research, a chair has been design focusing on the ergonomic point of view and fabricating the chair based on the proposed design. A proposed design for tabloid chair was developed using anthropometric data taken from approximately 180 students whose feedback of using tabloid chair were taken b. In this research, we also analyzed the feasible cost of chair for bulk production in order to make this chair available to the market as a reasonable cost.