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Research on Evaluation of Furniture Usability

Furniture can be designed and produced for various purposes and this depends on how well it serves in use, and contributes to efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction for final users. For furniture there are different standards that prescribe minimum requirements that a product must have. Those requirements are mainly related to the dimensions and technical quality. Even so, most users, designers, constructors and producers never perform evaluations of their furniture performance. The purpose of this paper is to discuss some factors and aspects important for evaluation of furniture usability. Analysis was performed on the example of 80 beds at the Croatian market. The results indicate that usability cannot be evaluated only by parameters defined and listed in standards. This proves the need for proposition to increase the number of factors, which define furniture usability.

anthropometry; design criteria; sustainable development; furniture usability; evaluation

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