Abstract
The increased prevalence of digital mobile devices has not only changed how people communicate but it has also led to a significant changing world of work and therefore to a new consideration of ergonomics of office workplaces. Studies show that the use of mobile devices leads to a different stress profile dependent on new work postures. As a consequence of the described change, seating systems have to be designed considering the demands of digitalized working worlds. In this paper, a design approach of an innovative seating system for a prospective health maintenance is presented that supports active sitting during sedentary work.
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Feller, N., Müller, U., Huynh, KH., Potthast, W., Dupré, T., Funck, J. (2018). Prospective Design of Seating Systems for Digitalized Working Worlds. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 602. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60825-9_12
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