The Dauphin HumanDesign Group’s focus fair will be in particular on the connection between people's sitting habits and the high-quality ergonomic seat features found on office and industrial chairs. For this purpose, three experimental Ergolab measurement methods visualise people’s sitting habits. These include the Ergo-Mouse for recording the contour of the user’s back, the Mini Electromyographic Measuring Device (EMG) for demonstrating muscular activities and the eyeSeat teaching chair.

Ergolab brings ergonomics to life
The Ergo-Mouse is the smallest measuring device and provides the fastest measurements. Its design makes it easy to use in office workplaces. It records the contour of the user’s back and therefore possible incorrect postures. The handy Mini-EMG (electromyography) provides preventative medicine specialists with a measuring device which makes it possible to record and visually depict muscular activity and muscular tension in the neck and shoulder muscles in the workplace. Thanks to bio-feedback functions, the employees can practise and learn how to sit with the chair in a dynamic seated posture for example. This involves exertion and relaxation as well as putting a strain on the muscles and then relieving this strain on an alternating basis. The test circuit is rounded off by the eyeSeat, an elaborately designed teaching chair. This chair makes it possible to monitor a person’s sitting habits at work on a long-term basis. If the person is sitting incorrectly, the special sensor system and software ensure that they are made aware of this by providing a visual and audible warning on their PC monitor. Accordingly, the person can then change their posture immediately.

In this way, the information can be applied to a person’s sitting habits in a clear and simple manner and the test persons can be made aware of the possible consequences. The system also suggests practical solutions while the measurements are being taken. “Experience has shown that we can only avoid errors if we are aware of them,” said Dauphin HumanDesign Group ergonomics expert Malte Lenkeit, explaining the benefits of the Ergolab for preventative medicine specialists. Lenkeit continued: “One of the most effective ways of changing people’s sitting habits is therefore to involve the people who are actually affected”.

Continuous development research in the field of ergonomics
The Dauphin HumanDesign Group’s results of research and development activities of many years are reflected not least in the very latest range of industrial chairs and the high-quality ergonomic seat features. These include the Syncro-Dynamic (SD) feature with a constant backrest counterpressure and automatic weight compensation as well as the Syncro Activ-Balance (AB) feature which allows the entire upper part of the chair to be individually or automatically adjusted forwards (seat tilt of up to -12°) and backwards, for example. Building on the findings of this groundbreaking ergonomic research, special features and robust mechanisms have been developed which ensure the highest possible ergonomic comfort when sitting whilst being easy to operate.