STANDARTLARA UYGUN TASARLANAN BİR OFİS SANDALYESİNİN XSENS VASITASIYLA ERGONOMİ ANALİZİ

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 8 Sayı: 2, 58 - 71, 15.08.2025

Melike Ünlü , Bülent Kaya , Kadir Cem Tuğcu

https://doi.org/10.33439/ergonomi.1558685

Öz

Uzun süre hareketsiz kalınan günümüz ofis çalışma ortamları, çalışanlar için birtakım ergonomi tabanlı sağlık sorunlarına neden olmaktadır. Bu durumu minimize etmek için, ofis mobilyaları tasarım sürecinde yönlendirici bir dizi standart kullanılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, ilgili standartlar ve dünya genelinde kabul gören antropometrik verilere göre tasarlanan bir ofis koltuğunun, kullanıcı ihtiyaçlarını ne derece karşıladığı sorusuna cevap aranmaktadır. Bu amaçla bu çalışmada 5 kullanıcı üzerine Xsens IMU sensörleri yerleştirildi ve oturma sürecinde kullanıcı davranışları kaydedildi. Bu veriler her vücut segmenti için ayrı olacak şekilde Scalefit Ergonomi yazılımı ile analiz edilmiştir. Bu çalışma ile elde ettiğimiz bulgular, ilgili standartlara göre tasarlanan bir ofis koltuğunun ergonomisinin değerlendirilmesinde kullanılmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

ergonomi , hareket yakalama , antropometri , sandalye tasarımı , ofis mobilyaları

ERGONOMIC ANALYSIS OF AN OFFICE CHAIR DESIGNED IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS BY UTILIZING XSENS

Öz

Today's office working environments, where employees are sedentary for long periods of time, cause a number of ergonomics-based health problems for employees. In order to minimize this situation, a number of standards are used to guide the design process of office furniture. This study seeks to answer the question to what extent an office chair designed according to the relevant standards and anthropometric data accepted worldwide meets user needs. For this purpose, Xsens IMU sensors were placed on 5 users and user behaviors were recorded during the sitting process. These data were analyzed separately for each body segment with Scalefit Ergonomics software. The findings of this study were used to evaluate the ergonomics of an office chair designed according to the relevant standards.

Anahtar Kelimeler

ergonomics , motion capture , anthropometry , chair design , office furniture

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