Ergonomic chair design by fusing qualitative and quantitative criteria using interactive genetic algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-354

  Brintrup, Alexandra Melike ^a   Ramsden, Jeremy ^b   Takagi, Hideyuki ^c   Tiwari, Ashutosh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Design optimization; Ergonomics; Interactive evolutionary computation; Multiobjective optimization

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CRITERION; DESIGN DIVERSITIES; DESIGN FRAMEWORKS; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN PROBLEMS; DESIGN SOLUTIONS; ERGONOMIC CHAIRS; ERGONOMIC DESIGNS; INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION; INTERACTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE APPROACHES; QUANTITATIVE CRITERION; USER EVALUATIONS; USER SATISFACTIONS;

DESIGN; ERGONOMICS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 65349171735     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2007.904343     Document Type: Article

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