My first furniture.

My chosen equipment is a stool I am currently making in my Furniture Construction class. Before I made the furniture, I tried to incorporate certain ergonomic principles or anthropometric variables in the measurements of the height and width of the stool - only that it was not up to the ISO standards, but to my body's standards. :)

I took into consideration the following anthropometric variables:

1) Lower leg length - vertical distance from the floor to the lowest part of the thigh behind the knee (90 degrees of knee flexion)
2) Hip breadth - maximum horizontal distance across the hips, while sitting down
3) Body depth - horizontal distance from the rear of the knee to the back of the buttock, while sitting down

I measured the height of the stool to about 18 inches plus a cushion of about an inch. The stool is round so the diameter works for both the hip breadth and body depth, which is measured at 17 inches. These measurements are basically based on my body size, allowing me enough space to sit on the cushion and allowing my feet to touch the ground at a comfortable level.