Arrokiyam.

“Vision to improve the well being at workspaces”

“Herniated disc or Slip disc symptoms are on the rise”

The most common cause of this issue is due to the fact we have started to sit for too long and improper sitting posture leads to excess stress in the lumbar region.

“My mission is to create a comfortable office space by focusing on the ergonomics, so people can be more relaxed and focus on performing the best”

Starting with the chair,

Only in the last 50 years since the start of the technology revolution, we are becoming accustomed to do our work by being seated.

Most of the chairs we use on our day do not offer good sitting posture.

Industrial design of chairs are designed to satisfy the 95 percentile of the demographic and do not account for the individual differences and shape of the human.

“We still have a long way to go to improve our well being and get better ergonomics”

Design

The design of the chair has to have 3 fundamentals
Purpose, Function and Accessibility

Beyond that it needs to satisfy 4 goals,
Affordability, Durability, Responsibility and Availability

The back support of the chair is is split into 3 parts and they are all independently adjustable to support the widest range of demographic

“The purpose of this design is to support our back to naturally correct our posture closer to our walking stance which puts the least amount of stress on our muscles”

- To be continued

This is work in progress page

Arrokiyam

  • Mechanical

  • Sensory

  • Behaviou

to fix the sitting posture

  • first we raise awareness of the correct sitting posture

  • provide solutions to existing infrastructure

  • design a better ecosystem

Humans were not designed to sit for long and only in the last 50 years of our million year evolution have we started to sit for more than 8 hours/day

Hence, design of work spaces and subject of ergonomics is very young and progressive

Problem

we are all quite aware of shrimp seating position

more than 20% of office workers have reported Lower back pain and cases of herniated disc is on the rise

thats because most of the furnitures we use in offices are designed for the common 50 percentile group and does not account for the individual differences

the objective is simple - just build a comfortable chair that can adapt to the individual to keep the most optimal posture.

the most optimal posture being the one which puts the least amount of stress on our body. That being we replicate the spinal posture of us standing/walking. It is also known as the pole position which makes us sit facing forward and we are more attentive and perform better. Opposite of it will be slouching where we are least attentive and struggle to finish tasks.

we achieve that by pushing our lumbar region forward and supporting the leaning thoracic region. And ofcourse by making the chair highly adjustable to suit the individual.

That solves the functionality of the design. In order to make a good design, it needs to have 3 things Purpose, function and accessibility.

In order to make it accessible it needs to easy to produce, relatively inexpensive, durable and available.

It would have to begin with design and make it more

Other ways to improve the sitting ergonomics is also by avoiding to sit for too long. that can be done by switching between sitting and standing desks. Or by taking a break every hour for 5 minutes aka “fika in Sweden”