"ACTIVE COMFORT" MEANS THE BEST IN SEATING COMFORT
- Research conducted by
- TNO, the second largest institute in Europe for ergonomic studies, located in Hoofdorp, Holland.
- The aim
- Assessing seating comfort of office chairs by objective measurements.
- The trial
- Based on the LPD-Test ("Local Postural Discomfort" by van der Grinten, 1992), localised impairments to comfort when seated on an office chair are measured with a "body-map" (Illustration on left) and a ten point scale. The investigation was carried out as part of a field study (i.e. not in the laboratory).
The result : The LPD-Test has shown that the office chair with "Glide-Tec®" performs better in every area of the body than an office chair with a conventional synchronous mechanism.
- The results show that on average for the whole body an office chair with "Glide-Tec®" is assessed as significantly more comfortable than a comparable chair with a conventional synchronous mechanism.
It follows that an "active comfort" chair with "Glide-Tec®" provides a demonstrably higher level of seating and movement comfort. In addition the load is taken off the neck, shoulders, arms and legs in the lumbar vertebrae area.
With "Glide-Tec®" you sit relaxed and healthy.
