High volume ergonomic simulation of chairs

Abstract

To understand what makes a chair comfortable or practical we need to test a large number of chairs, both good and bad. Due to the numbers involved we cannot achieve this with physical testing. Instead we use simpli ed ergonomic simulations. The sim- ulations presented here produce pressure maps within the range given the literature, along with several other measures of comfort and practicality. This was done sub- stantially faster than examples in the literature, permitting collection of thousands of results.