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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...

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, ...

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 ...

A restraint chair for primates.

A humane, adjustable and comfortable restraint chair is described which is suitable for a wide variety of experiments on unsedated primates weighing between 3.5 and 15 kg.