ASSESSING RELEVANT QUALITY ATTRIBUTES FOR DESIGNING AN ERGONOMIC DORM ROOM WITHIN THE ROMANIAN CONTEXT

Ana Maria BRANEA, Sabina Alina POTRA, Adrian Pavel PUGNA, Marius GAMAN

Abstract


The functionality of a dorm room and the productivity of the student work depends on the space arrangement considerations, yet the needs and desires of its user are seldom considered. Standard dorm-rooms house students with different workloads and schedules, space requirements and psychological needs. The present paper aims to design as efficiently as possible an ergonomic dorm room for Romanian students. For this purpose, the Kano methodology and the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) tool are used to discuss and determine the most relevant quality attributes.


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