TY - GEN
T1 - Latin American schoolchildren anthropometry
T2 - 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018
AU - Velasco, T. Wendy L.
AU - Camacho, C. Cristina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Musculoskeletal disorders have been widely studied in the adult population, with a focus on workplaces, due to the high rates of absenteeism in the last decade (Punnett and Wegman 2004). However, there are a limited number of studies that focus on musculoskeletal disorders and child anthropometry. Studies have shown that the lack of proper fit of children to school furniture can generate anatomical and functional changes, and negatively affect the learning process (Castellucci et al. 2014). In Ecuador, as in several Latin American countries, statural growth is influenced by socioeconomic status (Castellucci et al. 2016). For this reason, the present study focuses on the creation of anthropometric tables of school children between the ages of 5 and 7 for the urban and rural zones in Cotopaxi, Ecuador. The data is based on 10 anthropometric measures of a sample size of 300 urban and 300 rural children. The anthropometric profile is then used to analyze the differences between urban and rural children, the potential causes for these differences, and to propose a design for school desks. As a result of the study, prototypes of school desks that comply with ergonomic standards and anthropometric measures of school children were created using 3D printers.
AB - Musculoskeletal disorders have been widely studied in the adult population, with a focus on workplaces, due to the high rates of absenteeism in the last decade (Punnett and Wegman 2004). However, there are a limited number of studies that focus on musculoskeletal disorders and child anthropometry. Studies have shown that the lack of proper fit of children to school furniture can generate anatomical and functional changes, and negatively affect the learning process (Castellucci et al. 2014). In Ecuador, as in several Latin American countries, statural growth is influenced by socioeconomic status (Castellucci et al. 2016). For this reason, the present study focuses on the creation of anthropometric tables of school children between the ages of 5 and 7 for the urban and rural zones in Cotopaxi, Ecuador. The data is based on 10 anthropometric measures of a sample size of 300 urban and 300 rural children. The anthropometric profile is then used to analyze the differences between urban and rural children, the potential causes for these differences, and to propose a design for school desks. As a result of the study, prototypes of school desks that comply with ergonomic standards and anthropometric measures of school children were created using 3D printers.
KW - Anthropometric data
KW - Ergonomics
KW - Latin american children
KW - Musculoskeletal disorders
KW - School furniture design
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85051771453
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4_59
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4_59
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85051771453
SN - 9783319960647
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 555
EP - 565
BT - Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) - Volume IX
A2 - Bagnara, Sebastiano
A2 - Tartaglia, Riccardo
A2 - Albolino, Sara
A2 - Fujita, Yushi
A2 - Alexander, Thomas
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 26 August 2018 through 30 August 2018
ER -