The effect of furniture type and working position when drawing with laptop on musculoskeletal pain among students and the desk design strategy.

The present study analyzed undergraduate students' working methods when working on drawing assignments on alaptop to obtain a comfortable table design by considering their working habits. To this end, 155 respondents from different majors were recruited (58 interior design students, 34 Visual Communication Design students, 29 Civil Engineering students, and 13 mechanical engineering students). The data were obtained through observation and deployment of questionnaires to undergraduate students from several universities. The questionnaire consisted of multiple- choice questions and open-ended questions. The questions in the questionnaire explore the students' habits when working on digital drawing assignments using a laptop, the type of their table and chair used for drawing, their position, and pain in certain areas of the body they felt. This study showed that the students' habit, table, chair types, and position affect their pain. The result of this study could be used as a reference to consider the table and chair design that supports their working positions, thus reducing their pain and fatigue when working on drawing assignments. This study recommended a personal table design that supports students' sitting position, both sitting on the chair or sitting on the floor, by considering their habit in order to reduce the pain when working on drawing assignments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]