Guidelines for designing class room furniture

The task performance gets influenced to a great extent by the design and dimensions of the physical facilities provided at workplace. A total sample of 10 colleges was randomly selected for this study. Two class rooms from each college, making a total of 20 class rooms were selected for taking the measurements of existing furniture and 320 users were selected for recording anthropometric measurements, based on which guidelines were formulated for designing class room furniture. The results revealed that desk/ table height of the existing furniture was 77.304.67 cm as against the formulated dimension of 76 cm and seat height was 43.251.65 cm as against the formulated dimension of 44.00 cm. The height of the backrest was 41.205.75 cm as against the formulated dimension of 54.803 cm and the slope of backrest was 104.301.34 degree, whereas it should be 103.00 degree according to the formulation. The differences between existing and formulated dimensions were statistically significant.