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Workstation Design: Seating Workshop '22

Project type

Seating Workshop & Design

Location

Ahmedabad

Academic work | Seating Workshop | NID Ahmedabad | Mentors: Sweety Taur and Padmini Menon

The workstation design comprises an attachable inclined work-surface, tailor-made to accommodate the specific ergonomic needs of the two arms of a chosen user, performing a repetitive motion on a regular basis (in this case, illustration on an I-pad or a sketchbook). It looks at reducing the slouch and fatigue that occurs from continuously illustrating for over an hour.

Discovering problems and respective fixes: Low fidelity set-ups

The Scope of the Study: Shifted to the study of the behavior of the two arms during work (illustration) or leisure activities and design a set-up for the arms/ work surface.

Technique 1: Mapping the arms by a thermocol displacement grid (tailored for the user's arms).

Technique 2: The thermocol in the setup-1 was replaced with wet sand for taking the body impression. It proved cheaper, less labour intensive method of contour mapping as compared to using 3000 thermocol pieces. Different readings/ observations from the set-up were taken down and analyzed further from the impression in the sand.

Concept for Work Surface:
An attachable/ detachable inclined work surface, tailor- made for the studied user. An organic
form has been derived from analyzing the scope of arm movement during the illustration work.

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