Ergonomic Chair?

Look no further than the Aeron

If you are looking for an ergonomic chair, look no further than the Aeron. The Aeron is an ergonomic chair in that it moves the way the body moves. Bill Stumpf, one of the three designers behind the Herman Miller Aeron, Bill Stumpf has been studying behavioral and physiological aspects of sitting at work for more than 20 years. He put ergonomic criteria at the top of his list when designing the Aeron.

A person seated at work should be able to move freely and unselfconsciously from computer-related tasks to more relaxed or interactive postures. The work chair should follow along, providing optimal support whether the body is in motion or at rest. People assume many different positions when they sit at work, including:

• Forward sitting: used for performing work on the plane of a desk or for interacting with office equipment (Mandal 1985). (People of small stature working at a fixed-height work surface are virtually forced to assume this posture.)
• Slightly reclined sitting: used for conversation, telephoning, keyboarding, and mousing. Research shows that it is a preferred work posture (Grandjean 1980, Laubli 1986).
• Deeply reclined sitting: used for resting, reading, and, in some cases, keyboarding.

Bill Stumpf's research with Roger Kaufman at George Washington University identified the relationship of the body's major pivot points as it moves between the three basic seated postures. He designed the Aeron chair to support the body's natural linkages at all points, in all positions. As the sitter moves from upright to reclined, the feet are not lifted from the floor, as in column-tilt chairs; the lumbar support does not move away from its supportive position at the iliac crest, as it does in many synchronous tilt chairs; the arms do not slide back on the armrests, as they do in chairs that have armrests attached to the seat pan rather than the backrest.

All the Herman Miller ranges of chairs are ergonomic chairs in that they are good work chairs that allow a person to sit comfortably and properly. The Aeron, Mirra and Celle chairs all support each of the three basic work postures and allow the sitter to move spontaneously between them while maintaining comfort and support. So, for an ergonomic chair choose from the Herman Miller ranges.