A Thinking Person's Chair

From a Real Chair to a Negative Chair

T From High Chair to High School : Research - Based Principles for Teaching Complex Thinking

his classroom description is an enactment of the research-based practices demonstrated to be most effective for all populations we have studied (Tharp et al. 2000), kindergarten through middle school. Four decades of research in the field of education and diversity have produced a clear and solid body of evidence strong enough to guide teachers, regardless of the languages, ethnicities, race, o...

Rising from a chair. Influence of age and chair design.

We studied the effect of age on the act of rising from a standard armchair in a younger (means = 24 years) and an older (means = 75 years) group of healthy adult women. Rising from a standard armchair and an armchair specially designed for comfort in sitting of the elderly was studied in the older group to determine the influence of the special chair. We used electrogoniometry, EMG, and videota...

Design and Development of a Persian Office Chair Satisfaction Questionnaire

Background and Objectives: Accurate measurement of the employees’ satisfaction with their office chairs can provide valid feedback on the chair design quality for the manufacturers and researchers. This study aims to design a valid and psychometrically evaluated questionnaire for measuring satisfaction with office chairs. Methods: Through studying the two main documents about chair ergonomics ...

Chair design affects how older adults rise from a chair.

OBJECTIVE To determine how modifications of key chair design aspects, such as seat height, posterior seat tilt, backrest recline, seat compressibility, and armrest placement, affect how older adults rise from a chair and the seating comfort they experience. DESIGN Cross-sectional comparison. SETTING Congregate housing facility and university laboratory. SUBJECTS Two groups of volunteers, ...