Ergonomic evaluation of workstations for international students at universities: a case study

Abstract

In this paper the attention is paid to the problem of adjustment of workstations to European students who are more and more willing to enrol at education exchange programs in universities all around Europe. With this aim, six classrooms and six auditoriums in two universities were evaluated considering the anthropometric data of the students. The results of the investigation showed that most of workstations in both universities are not appropriate for 5th and 95th percentile of the analysed populations. Thus, there is a need to adjust these workstations to their potential users and, accordingly, to eliminate the mismatch and provide students with workstation able to allow them to adopt natural resting postures.