chair intervention on musculoskeletal risk by assigning people to one of three groups: ‘people with training and adjustable chair’, ‘people with training only’ and ‘other people’. The training changed the behavior of people to help them use the office chair properly and decrease musculoskeletal risk. On the other hand, adjustable keyboard and mouse support improved the comfort level of fingers and lower back (Park et al., 2000) while inclination of a keyboard affected the comfort of neck and head (Asundi et al., 2012). Simi-larly, the impact of different reclined seating postures on typing performance and comfort for people with lower back pain was investigated (Hayanes and Williams, 2008). Different postures had an impact on typing performance, but the authors suggested that further experiments with improved fixtures should be done.
In this research, a new workstation capable of multiple working positions that follows the posture of a user was proposed in order to increase comfort. Thus, the objective of this research was to design a new multi-position ergonomic computer workstation which can support the body in multiple positions to provide better comfort for long periods of work at a computer and, as a result, make a userhealthyand productive. The chairand desk were joined by implementing an ergonomic design. Fig. 1 shows the proposed design of the workstation.