Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - BODY MEASUREMENTS OF CZECH ADULT
POPULATION: A BACKGROUND FOR SEATING
FURNITURE FUNCTIONAL DIMENSION
UPDATES
AU  - ČUTA M
AU  - URBANOVÁ P
AU  - BRUNECKÝ P
AU  - DVOULETÁ K
AU  - KRÁLÍK M
AU  - MOŘKOVSKÝ T
Y1  - 2019
VL  - 57
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 349
EP  - 361
KW  - Body measurements – furniture design – S, M, L sizes – NIS project
N2  - 
N2  - For the contemporary Czech population, the recent-most dataset available to serve as a reference to furniture
designers originated in anthropometric examinations performed during the Czechoslovak spartakiad which took place in
1985. Currently valid technological design standards are based on anthropometric data collected in the 1960's. To provide
background for an update of furniture functional dimensions, 37 somatic characteristics were measured in a sample of
463 adult participants. The collected data were used as a background for a design standard update proposal as a
statistically significant difference was found in somatic characteristics between the current Czech population and the
reference sample. Post-hoc testing was employed to verify the concept of utilizing S, M, L sizes (similarly to the clothing
industry) in furniture design. For the seat height and length, the S, M, L categories for both males and females would be
plausible (there is little overlap in size categories), but for seat width, armrest width and height sizes based on body height can’t be defined clearly. Our results suggest that no clear recommendation can be provided to furniture designers (based
on our data) in terms of creating size categories for seating furniture.
ER  -