Research of Anxiety When Seat Rises in Standing Up Assistance Chair

• Published in: Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshū. C Vol. 74; no. 748; pp. 3028 - 3035
• Main Authors: BANDO, Naoyuki, MURATA, Akihiro, ANDO, Toshihiro, YAMADA, Hironao, MORITA, Hironobu, TANAKA, Kunihiko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 2008
• Subjects: Human Engineering; Human Interface; Medical and Welfare Assistance
• ISSN: 0387-5024; 1884-8354
• DOI: 10.1299/kikaic.74.3028

To clarify the movement of the standing up assistance chair and correspondence with the sense side of the user in this research, it considered it based on the result of the senses examination experiment. As a result, in the superiority or inferiority judgment of the influence that the movement pattern on the seat with the difference exerted on the person, there was a common criterion to the person, and it was guessed that it was an anxiety. Next, to examine the relation between the movement orbit on the seat and the user's posture change, the operation measurement experiment was done. Based on those results, the relation with rise on the seat and user's psychological senses was considered. Result, to decrease the anxiety according to the movement on the seat, the suggestion that it was important to reduce the change of the angle of the knee, and to reduce the spine curve angle change, and to support the body by the area with a wide seat, and to support a lot of weight by the seat, and to slow down the movement of the seat load center was obtained.