Distinguishing characteristics of junior high school classroom interior design in Bali with ergonomics principles consideration to optimize students’ performance

I Gusti Ngurah, Ardana and Ida Bagus, Alit swamardika and I Made, Radiawan and AA Gde, Ardana (2015) Distinguishing characteristics of junior high school classroom interior design in Bali with ergonomics principles consideration to optimize students’ performance. Documentation. ISI Denpasar.

Abstract

(Abstract) The main goals of this paper is to promote the model of Interior design of Junior High School classroom in Bali, which is designed by ergonomics principles consideration to optimize students’ performance during the learning activities. The condition of interior design of classroom has plays an important role to optimize the students’ performance, has been aware by the Government of Bali. But, unfortunately, untill for this time being they never go to persue the interior design of the classroom with ergonomics principles consideration to optimize the students’ performance. Although International Ergonomics Association (IEA) was recognized that ergonomics is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system and the profession that apllies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance. Practitioner Summary: Ergonomics problems were collected from 167 female and male students in Junior High School of Badung and Gianyar Regency of Bali Province, from Monday to Friday on 7.30 am to 12.30 pm. By regarding that problems, proposed junior high school classroom interior design with ergonomics principle consideration that provide: (1) locker to store for each students’ school bag that settled over the lenght of the wall in front of the classroom; (2) facilities for placing books and stationaries on every students’ desk; (3) the edges and corners of each desk and chair must made curve and blunt; (4) flexible whiteboard that hung on over the lenght of the front wall of the classroom for covering visual objects and a number of accessories; (5) personal students’ circulation to prevent the tendency to mount onto the chair or even the desk; (6) most of the accessories in order to place in the classroom must be hung at the rear wall of the classroom; (7) translucent ceiling to allow sunlight for increasing the intencity of illumination thus saving electrical energy; and (8) spreading of air circulation to accelerate the movement of air in order to reduce the interior relative humidity so that the classroom condition of interior design was comfortable. Keywords: junior high school, classroom, students’ performance, interior design, ergonomics.

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