Ergonomic Designing of Classroom Interior for High-School Children
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2015-07
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University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad
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Children are the wealth of every country. A school is a place of work for children. The present study is aimed on ergonomic designing of classroom interior for high-school children. The research design used for the present investigation was exploratory and experiment. The survey and experiment was conducted in Dharwad city of Dharwad taluk, Karnataka. A total of 200 high school children (100 boys and 100 girls) from 9th standard of six high schools (three government and three private schools) were selected for recording anthropometric measurements. A sub sample of 150 students (81 boys and 69 girls) was selected for the survey and a representative sub-sample of thirty high school children were selected for experimental study. The data revealed that the classroom interior components such as classroom size, window floor area, chalkboard size, available per student area, furniture measurements, illumination level and noise level were found to be varied from BIS recommendation. A higher percentage of the selected students suggested for height adjustment in developed prototype classroom furniture. The data on experimental study conducted with ergonomically developed classroom furniture showed that the selected students’ posture adoption was found to be acceptable and they experienced significantly less body pain in developed prototype classroom furniture than in existing furniture. So the developed prototype classroom furniture was recommended and based on the furniture design, the recommendations on classroom interior features such as classroom size, window size, number of windows, room density were proposed. Also other features such as chalkboard size, storage space, illumination and noise level were recommended based on BIS standard. It could be concluded that by adopting the recommended classroom design for high school children provide comfortable and also results in improving their learning ability.