Abstract
Due to the mismatch between the human body dimension and the refrigerator’s structure, many household refrigerators’ volumes don’t get fully utilized. Using the ergonomic design principle-based approach, 6 model machines of 6 brands purchased from household appliance markets at random were evaluated in separating sides, which were the Available Volume base on the normal reach zone and Easy-to-Use Volume base on the comfortable reach zone. This evaluation aims to promote the available and easy-to-use volume of household refrigerators by ergonomic design approach.
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This research is supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program: control devices ergonomics design technology and standards research (project number 2014BAK01B02).
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Hu, H. et al. (2017). Ergonomic Evaluation of Refrigerating Chamber Volume of Refrigerator. In: Soares, M., Falcão, C., Ahram, T. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics Modeling, Usability & Special Populations. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41685-4_33
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