Research Article
How Do Tilt Angles Affect Users’ Comfort Level While Using Bed Tables?
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.16-9-2022.2324877, author={Bojin Wang}, title={How Do Tilt Angles Affect Users’ Comfort Level While Using Bed Tables?}, proceedings={Proceedings of the International Conference on Art Design and Digital Technology, ADDT 2022, 16-18 September 2022, Nanjing, China}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ADDT}, year={2022}, month={12}, keywords={ergonomics; bed table; working posture; comfort; industrial design}, doi={10.4108/eai.16-9-2022.2324877} }- Bojin Wang
Year: 2022
How Do Tilt Angles Affect Users’ Comfort Level While Using Bed Tables?
ADDT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.16-9-2022.2324877
Abstract
Bed tables become more and more popular among many young people and office workers, with the angle-tilted structure which allows users more working posture choices. Other-wise, whether working in front of bed tables of which the desktop’s angle can be tilted meet ergonomics rules and do not lead to users’ discomfort is still unknown. Therefore, the goal of this research is to test whether the tilt angle will affect users’ comfort while work-ing in front of a bed table. To achieve this goal, an experiment with 12 participants was de-signed, in which a questionnaire was used to collect the participants’ subjective feelings of comfort and the spinal angles were recorded to analyze objective comfort level of partici-pants. According to the SPSS analysis of data, the result showed that a 30°desktop tilt an-gle of bed table might improve both physical comfort level and subjective physical feeling. The result of this research may provide some references for the future design of bed tables and give users some suggestions of choosing different working furniture.