scholarly journals Listen: Oppenheimer’s office chair one of the only possessions the lab has from our first director

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brye Steeves
Keyword(s):  
Office Chair

Mara Chasar

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Bakan
Keyword(s):  
Asperger's Syndrome ◽  
Asperger’S Syndrome ◽  
Office Chair

“I love spinny chairs!” the eleven-year-old writer, poet, dancer, musician, and sometime goofball Mara Chasar shrieks gleefully as she spins round and round in a sober black office chair. “Spinny chair! Everyone loves the spinny chair!!” So begins a 2013 conversation that will change the course of the entire Speaking for Ourselves project. Mara has Asperger’s syndrome, but while she acknowledges the myriad challenges of living with this condition, she demands acceptance of it and of herself on her own terms. Autism awareness is not enough, she proclaims. Autism acceptance is what’s needed. “Who says autism is a bad thing?” Mara challenges us to consider. “Autism isn’t cholera; it isn’t some disease you can just cure. It’s just there . . . . Awareness means you know it’s there, but acceptance means you know it’s there and it’s not going to go away . . . . And there is no cure. There really isn’t. It’s just there, wound into your personality.”

scholarly journals Design of female white-collar office chair based on ergonomics

2020 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 02101
Author(s):  
Jiao Hu ◽  
Qing Yin ◽  
Canqun He
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Office Workers ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Work Efficiency ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Office Chair

In the daily work of office workers, the comfort of the office chair has a great impact on the staff’s work efficiency and human health. Sitting on the office chair for a long time may cause diseases such as cervical, shoulder, and lumbar spine. This article uses online literature research, brand analysis, and offline field research to understand the current status and deficiencies of office chairs, find design points and design directions, and based on ergonomics and sitting analysis research, design general office chairs for female white-collar workers to achieve a comfortable and healthy office purpose.

scholarly journals In VivoSpinal Posture during Upright and Reclined Sitting in an Office Chair

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Zemp ◽  
William R. Taylor ◽  
Silvio Lorenzetti
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Spinal Column ◽  
Sitting Position ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Subject Variability ◽  
Dynamic Seating ◽  
Vertebral Bodies ◽  
Back Problems ◽  
Office Chair

Increasing numbers of people spend the majority of their working lives seated in an office chair. Musculoskeletal disorders, in particular low back pain, resulting from prolonged static sitting are ubiquitous, but regularly changing sitting position throughout the day is thought to reduce back problems. Nearly all currently available office chairs offer the possibility to alter the backrest reclination angles, but the influence of changing seating positions on the spinal column remains unknown. In an attempt to better understand the potential to adjust or correct spine posture using adjustable seating, five healthy subjects were analysed in an upright and reclined sitting position conducted in an open, upright MRI scanner. The shape of the spine, as described using the vertebral bodies’ coordinates, wedge angles, and curvature angles, showed high inter-subject variability between the two seating positions. The mean lumbar, thoracic, and cervical curvature angles were29±15°,-29±4°, and13±8° for the upright and33±12°,-31±7°, and7±7° for the reclined sitting positions. Thus, a wide range of seating adaptation is possible through modification of chair posture, and dynamic seating options may therefore provide a key feature in reducing or even preventing back pain caused by prolonged static sitting.

TiltChair: Manipulative Posture Guidance by Actively Inclining the Seat of an Office Chair

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuyuki Fujita ◽  
Aoi Suzuki ◽  
Kazuki Takashima ◽  
Kaori Ikematsu ◽  
Yoshifumi Kitamura
Keyword(s):  
Office Chair

scholarly journals Bad Enough Ergonomics

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401668513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virve Peteri
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Design ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Office Furniture ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
A Company ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Office Chair

The article analyzes ergonomics as a social and cultural phenomenon, as something that is formulated and described by speakers in a specific social context; in a company that is specialized in producing ergonomic office furniture. Through a case study of an office chair, the article examines how ergonomics and its association with the vision of the potential users and their working spaces are constructed by the relevant actors in project meetings and individual interviews during the manufacturing process. The article is concerned with how, in the process of producing an office chair, the chair gains an identity of an aesthetic design object and how this comes to mean the reformulation of the idea of ergonomics. The empirical analysis also provides insight into how the somewhat grand discourses of soft capitalism or aesthetic economy are not abstract, but very much grounded in everyday practices of an organization. The article establishes how the vision shared by all the relevant actors invites active, flexible, and cooperative end-users and how the vision also has potential material effects. The research is an ethnographically inspired case study that draws ideas from discursive psychology.

Usage of Office Chair Adjustments and Controls by Workers Having Shared and Owned Work Spaces

2009 ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Groenesteijn ◽  
Merle Blok ◽  
Margriet Formanoy ◽  
Elsbeth de Korte ◽  
Peter Vink
Keyword(s):  
Work Spaces ◽  
Office Chair

Evaluating the Reaction Force of Office Chair Backrest for Different Joint Structures

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 535-540
Author(s):  
Joon Ho Hyeong ◽  
Sa Yup Kim ◽  
Jong Ryun Roh ◽  
Seong Bin Park ◽  
Kyung Ryul Chung
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Force ◽  
Office Chair

Physiological and cognitive measures during prolonged sitting: Comparisons between a standard and multi-axial office chair

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 176-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Triglav ◽  
Erika Howe ◽  
Jaskirat Cheema ◽  
Blaire Dube ◽  
Mark J. Fenske ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Measures ◽  
Prolonged Sitting ◽  
Office Chair

Effects of differences in office chair controls, seat and backrest angle design in relation to tasks

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Groenesteijn ◽  
Peter Vink ◽  
Michiel de Looze ◽  
Frank Krause
Keyword(s):  
Office Chair
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