Office Chair Design for Notebook PC Work

Design and Development of a Persian Office Chair Satisfaction Questionnaire

Background and Objectives: Accurate measurement of the employees’ satisfaction with their office chairs can provide valid feedback on the chair design quality for the manufacturers and researchers. This study aims to design a valid and psychometrically evaluated questionnaire for measuring satisfaction with office chairs. Methods: Through studying the two main documents about chair ergonomics ...

Design of Office Chair: A Quality Function Deployment Approach

This paper employs a quality function deployment (QFD) methodology to translate customer requirements into design characteristics to improve the design of an office chair. A factor analysis has been carried out on the responses obtained from a cross sectional survey directed at users through a set of questionnaires. It has been obtained that three factors with twenty two items are loaded with a...

Investigation of Packaged Miniature Heat Pipe for Notebook PC Cooling

Miniature heat pipe (MHP) with woven-wired wick was used to cool the CPU of a notebook PC. The pipe with circular cross-section was pressed and bent for packaging the MHP on the very limited space of a notebook PC. A cross-sectional area of the pipe is reduced about 30% when the MHP with 4mm diameter is pressed to 2mm thickness. In this study, a performance test has been performed in order to r...

Letter from the General PC Co-Chair

Letter from the VLDB2011 General PC Co-Chair