Design of ergonomic office chair which textile comfort properties optimised

Today, as in developed countries, importance of safety and health at work, education of safety and health at work and discussion of related problems about safety and health at work are becoming increasingly important in our country. Every kinds of job has positive and negative effects on human health. Nowadays, people have become almost integrated manner with their chairs due to the increasing working times on the computers although offices are known as the best comfortable work places. Hence, increasing is seen in musculoskeletal disorders of the occupational disease group. The aim of this thesis is determining the suitability of the construction dimensions of the chairs used in the workplace to the anthropometric measurements of the Turkish people and how the comfort of the textile materials used in the chairs are perceived by the users. In addition to determine the construction characteristics of office chairs and office workers expectations from their chairs. Objective and subjective tests will be performed to determine whether office seats and materials satisfy the expectations of office workers, according to the findings. As a result, office chair designs equipped with materials that satisfy the optimum specifications will be realized.