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A Study on the Functional Dimensions of Chinese People for Workspace Design

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Advances in Ergonomics in Design (AHFE 2020)

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This study makes statistics and analysis on the body size for the working space of different gender and different age groups by using the regression formulas in GB/T 13547-1992 and the newly collected data of height and weight obtained in the national adult body size survey. The data obtained can be used for the design and ergonomic evaluation of various working spaces related to human body size, such as operation, maintenance, safety protection, etc.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by Major project funded by the president of China National Institute of Standardization (project number 522018Y-5984)and the National Key Technology R&D Program (2014BAK01B02).

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  1. China National Institute of Standardization, Beijing, China

    Linghua Ran, Chaoyi Zhao, Hong Luo, Xin Zhang & Taijie Liu

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  1. Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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Ran, L., Zhao, C., Luo, H., Zhang, X., Liu, T. (2020). A Study on the Functional Dimensions of Chinese People for Workspace Design. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51038-1_26

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