This thesis is concerned with the human factors aspect of the physical facility design process to achieve the highest integration between the workplace and its seated operations whose comfort, physical wellbeing, and performance can be greatly influenced by the degree of fitness.
Considerations are given to the development of a heuristic end-point prediction model which provides various kinds of unloaded, kinematic anthropometric information needed for workplace design.
This model, with its computer graphic output, has a general predictability to cover various sizes of human body, but it is specifically designed to provide the spatial coordinates of shoulder joint center and reach envelope of both hands of a seated operator.
The parameters of the mathematical models are predicted and validated by regression analysis.
