Abstract
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, sleep quality and rest efficiency. 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 obvious differences in the spine curvature between different groups of people. This experiment result has important reference significance on the ergonomic design of mattress.
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This research is supported by China National Institute of Standardization through the “special funds for the basic R&D undertakings by welfare research institutions” (522015Y-3992) and the National Key Technology R&D Program (2014BAK01B02).
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Hu, H. et al. (2016). Study on Human Body Dimensions Used for Ergonomic Design and Evaluation of Mattress. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_45
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