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At the starting point of a children’s furniture design project, which is part of a Product Design research, the contribution of Human Factors and Ergonomics to this stage of the design process, could not be overlooked. In early stages of this research other studies of this nature were made and it seemed necessary to return to HFE in order to project suitable dimensions for the equipment. Based on case study and literary review, with the use of schematic drawing, this study about physical adaptability to the child, from 6 months up to 7 years of age of 6 selected evolutive high chairs, aims to understand if mismatches or gaps between the child’s physical development and the equipment’s dimensions exist, lowering the level of adaptability. The results clearly separate the group in three different adaptability levels, pointing out directions for this project and demonstrating the importance of Ergonomics and Human Factors in the Design process.
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Salvador, C. (2018). Ergonomics in the Design Process - Study of Adaptability of Evolutive High Chairs. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 588. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60582-1_77
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