Elementary school student’s anthropometry for the purpose of school furniture  

Oleh:

Yanto ; Lu, Chih-Wei

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: PROCEEDING The 8th International Seminar on Industrial Engineering and Management (8th ISIEM). Atria Hotel & Conference, Malang, Indonesia March 17 – 19, 2015, page ER-9.
Topik: Anthropometric dimensions; sitting postures; elementary school students.
Fulltext: Paper 06 Yanto&ChihWei Lu - Chung Yuan Univ&Atma Jaya Chatoloc University of Indonesia.pdf (215.65KB)

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This study aims to present anthropometric dimensions of Indonesian Elementary school students for the design of school furnitures. The research was conducted in Metropolitan Area of Jakarta, Indonesia. A number of 1,214 students age between 6–11 years old was participated in this study. Eight anthropometric data in the sitting posture of the subject were measured. The mean, standar deviation (SD), percentile value of such anthropometric dimensions were calculated. Results of t-test showed that there was a significant difference of popliteal height of students between age group and gender. Results also showed differences for some other sitting dimensions among age group. Further, these differences among age group and gender should be very important and should be taken into consideration in designing the school furniture to be used by students.

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