Study on the human body dimensions used for ergonomic design of mattress

论文题目 Study on the human body dimensions used for ergonomic design of mattress
作者 呼慧敏,赵朝义,张帆,吴海媚
年度 2016
发表/出版时间 2016/7/31
发表期刊/会议 AHFE2016
关键词 Mattress, ergonomic design, human body dimensions, spine curvature
摘要 Mattress is very closely related to people's life. The ergonomics design is very important to the comfort of mattress which directly influences the health and sleep quality. A large number of studies show that the ergonomic design of the mattress has a direct relationship with human body dimensions, such as height, weight, spine curvature and so on. And human spine curvature is an important influence factor for the ergonomic design of mattress. This study aims at establishing the ergonomic design index of mattress and obtains the human body dimensions used for ergonomic design of mattress. Based on the collected human body data, the contrastive analysis on the spine curvature of different groups of people was conducted. It was found that there were differences in the spine curvature between different groups of people.