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In order to study the influence of backpack on children’s health under different load conditions four groups of children in kindergarten, junior primary school age, senior middle school age and junior high school students were selected for the experiment. Children carry different weight percentage of backpack movement according to the group, using vicon infrared high-speed motion capture system to collect spatial coordinate. The results of data analysis showed that the mean value and variance of shoulder balance, hip balance and cervical spine forward Angle were all higher than that of no-load state, there are significant differences between different backpacks (p < 0.03). Therefore, the primary goal of children’s backpack carrying health is to protect cervical vertebra by changing the design of children’s backpack.
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This research is supported by 2017 National Quality Infrastructure (2017NQI) project (2017YFF0206603) and China National Institute of Standardization through the “special funds for the basic R&D undertakings by welfare research institutions” (522019Y-6667 and 522018Y-5984).
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Hu, H., Li, S., Ni, S. (2020). Study on Backpack Carrying Health of Children. 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_52
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