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題 名 | An Anthropometric Study of Taiwanese Elementary and Junior High Schoolchildren on the Design of Classroom Desks and Chairs |
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作 者 | Chang, Liang-wey; Yang, Yee-pien; | 書刊名 | 醫學工程 |
卷 期 | 11:6 民88.12 |
頁 次 | 頁339-343 |
分類號 | 527.65 |
關鍵詞 | Anthropometric study; School desks and chairs; Schoolchildren anthropometry; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | In 1995, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan was initiating a project to investigate the function of the desks and chairs used at the elementary and junior high schools primarily due to the unbearably high prevalence of myopia among Taiwanese youngsters. The objective of this paper is to present a study of the anthropometric data which were taken from the elementary and junior high school students in Taiwan. The anthropometric study was carried out in order that the evaluation procedures and the new design could be greatly simplified. There were 1347 schoolchildren from three elementary schools and three junior high schools, which covered urban and rural areas in Taiwan. Twelve key anthropometric ratios relating to the design of the desks and chairs were measured. A statistical analysis was performed to examine the significance of the differences of the anthropometric data between genders and among the user groups. It was found that the genders did not present the differences in the anthropometric ratios and most user groups did not show the differences either. However, there were a few user groups being significant or highly significant in difference. In addition, the anthropometic study of schoolchildren for various stature groups in this paper offers another research direction for anthropometric studies when the equipment design related application of the anthropometric data is a central theme. |
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