@inproceedings{080e93084b96452a90cde3d538cb9b94,
title = "Design of Home Study Furniture for Students of 14-18 Years",
abstract = "This study was conducted for students of 14–18 years of age and their existing home study furniture to evaluate the ergonomic and usability aspects. Home study furniture has a major impact on students{\textquoteright} academic performance and their learning behaviour. The target users were selected from three districts of Kerala—Kollam, Trivandrum and Ernakulum—to study their pain points, concerns and ethnography of their study settings. A huge ergonomic mismatch was found and correlated with the users{\textquoteright} attitude towards studies. Further, key insights were drawn to design an ergonomic, highly suitable and effective furniture for the target group in context with their pain points and various academic needs. The final solution of the home study furniture was selected after the concept evaluation matrix and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis of the concepts generated during the ideation phase. Afterwards, the CAD model and prototype of the final solution were made, tested with the prospective users, and their feedback was incorporated into the final product.",
author = "Gurmeet Singh and Manu Thundathil",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.",
year = "2021",
month = mar,
day = "21",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-981-33-6428-8",
series = "Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering",
publisher = "Springer, Singapore",
pages = "373--387",
editor = "L Ganippa and R Karthikeyan and V Muralidharan",
booktitle = "Advances in Design and Thermal Systems",
}