Ergonomics of a Hostel Room
Hostel Room Design
Compiled By:
Mohit Manchanda
Rahul Lahariya
Reuben Varma
Abstract
This report aims to introduce the topic of the project: “Hostel Room Design using Ergonomics”. It outlines the importance of a well-designed hostel room in a student’s college experience. It summarizes how lack of attention to this aspect in the midst of hurried higher education expansion hampers the growth of youth to adults. It identifies many different aspects of design of a hostel room that must be well designed from the ergonomics perspective to improve the quality of life of college students, but only from a qualitative perspective. Further in-depth quantitative study and developing a design of a standard hostel room will be done in future parts of this project. The report ends with critical review of two Research Papers and a US Patent that are relevant to the study.
Objective
During the course of this project, we plan to look in detail the design and setting of hostel rooms from ergonomics point of view. We plan to look into the all over design aspect of the room i.e. the placement/location of the door, windows, cabinets, lights, light switches etc. We would also improve the main/essential furniture parts present in the rooms such as the bed, computer table, cabinet etc keeping into mind their final use by the students.
Introduction
A student’s hostel plays an important role in a student’s college life. Based on our own college experience, we have come across many uncomfortable features that exist in hostel rooms. Since experiences in college eventually determine what kind of adults the students will become, it is obvious that the place where a lot of student life is spent, the hostels, be designed in a way that introduces desirable features in the student’s personality. For instance, absence of certain desirable features in the hostel room design like proper lighting will take away the reading habits of some students, and hamper the health of
Compiled By:
Mohit Manchanda
Rahul Lahariya
Reuben Varma
Abstract
This report aims to introduce the topic of the project: “Hostel Room Design using Ergonomics”. It outlines the importance of a well-designed hostel room in a student’s college experience. It summarizes how lack of attention to this aspect in the midst of hurried higher education expansion hampers the growth of youth to adults. It identifies many different aspects of design of a hostel room that must be well designed from the ergonomics perspective to improve the quality of life of college students, but only from a qualitative perspective. Further in-depth quantitative study and developing a design of a standard hostel room will be done in future parts of this project. The report ends with critical review of two Research Papers and a US Patent that are relevant to the study.
Objective
During the course of this project, we plan to look in detail the design and setting of hostel rooms from ergonomics point of view. We plan to look into the all over design aspect of the room i.e. the placement/location of the door, windows, cabinets, lights, light switches etc. We would also improve the main/essential furniture parts present in the rooms such as the bed, computer table, cabinet etc keeping into mind their final use by the students.
Introduction
A student’s hostel plays an important role in a student’s college life. Based on our own college experience, we have come across many uncomfortable features that exist in hostel rooms. Since experiences in college eventually determine what kind of adults the students will become, it is obvious that the place where a lot of student life is spent, the hostels, be designed in a way that introduces desirable features in the student’s personality. For instance, absence of certain desirable features in the hostel room design like proper lighting will take away the reading habits of some students, and hamper the health of
References: Date: December 5, 1995 The patent provides a design of an Ergonomic Pillow