Ergonomic Ship Chair Design for Indonesian People

Abstract

An anthropometric study of Indonesian people use ship in economy class in East Java was conducted. Fifty-eight body dimensions, age, body weight, and hand squeeze strength for chair design importance were measured for 300 Indonesian males, comprising Javanese (150) and Madurese (150) tribes. The two tribes were compared to identity similarity and contrast existing in their respective body dimensions. Descriptive statistics provided mean, standard deviation, percentile value and coefficient of variance of each population. The survey also revealed that the mean values of hand squeeze strength of Javanese males were higher than the Madurese have. For ergonomically design for seat of ship is as follows seat height 38.7 cm, seat depth 42.2 cm, seat width per passenger 40.0 cm, height of back rest 89.1 cm, angle of tilt back rest is 105° to 115°, width of backrest is 44.5 cm, height of armrest is 94.8 cm, length arm of armrest is 26.7 cm, footrest width is 4.5 cm, legroom is 55.8 cm.