<p>I am doing a project for an Engineering Design class at Penn State and would really appreciate it if you could share your thoughts on lecture hall chair desk combos.</p>
<p>We are to design a new chair with more usability, greater comfort, and/or anything else that would make your life being stuffed into a <24" wide space any more pleasant. </p>
<p>Please touch on things you like, dislike, and any other comments you have.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your help.</p>
<p>As few chair/desk legs as possible, and no horizontal bars, except on the floor. Also make the fold-desk thingy (if applicable) a little bit wider, so you can actually put a notebook on it.</p>
<p>Don’t forget lefties.</p>
<p>If it’s one of those fold-out desks, PLEASE make it wider and come up with some new innovative way to have it slide out from the side, because mine always seems to collapse in on itself and throws my spirals halfway across the room! 
And I’m not the only one with this problem, either, although it could just be the state of my crappy college, lol.</p>
<p>Is asking for a fold-out desk that can adjust to various heights (I like having my spirals closer to my head, actually) asking for way too much? :D</p>
<p>another for wider desks!.. why was it made so small to begin with?</p>
<p>I think the point of making the desk-fold thingy so small was so that it would fit along the length of the chair. I can think of a way to pivot a much wider desk so that it will fit next to a chair, but I don’t know the spacing between chairs or their size. I think a major comfort thing is going to be the ability to rest both hands on a desk without undertaking unnatural contortions.</p>
<p>My favorite lecture hall on campus has chairs that swivel. They have the flip-up “desk” portion, and can turn almost 360 degrees. Each level has 2 rows of chairs, the back row stationary and the front row swivels. It’s nice when you’re in a class that has a lot of small discussion w/in the lecture, and you can turn the entire desk around to talk with people behind you and can work without having to constantly turn around to write. <strong>Plus swivel chair are GREAT for those of us who get antsy and can’t sit still!</strong></p>
<p>This is the room. It might look like being in the 2nd row has poor sight lines because it’s on the same level as the seat in front of you, but I’ve never had a problem. <a href=“http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/roomscheduling/room.asp?room_id=135[/url]”>LEBARON 1210;
<p>make the chairs more like actual office chairs (in terms of cushioning) rather than torture devices.</p>
<p>1.) Raise the desk portion. I’m a big guy (6’6,) and I always have to sit in really awkward positions to get my legs to fit properly.</p>
<p>2.) Some desks on campus have a hinge so the back rest reclines a little bit. I’m not suggesting a full on recliner, but a desk that can lean back with you is nice.</p>
<p>A table large enough to put down a laptop. Cushions are nice. I like those chairs that have the rubber midway down the backrest so you can bend it back a bit. </p>
<p>“<strong>Plus swivel chair are GREAT for those of us who get antsy and can’t sit still!</strong>”</p>
<p>And watching you swivel is awful for those of us with ADD.</p>
<p>Am I the only person that likes writing on a slanted surface nowadays? Ever since elementary school I do all of my writing on a clipboard leaned against my leg or the desk.</p>
<p>I know there are a lot of people wanting larger chairs but don’t foget us short petite people too. I don’t like to drown in my chair.</p>
<p>I agree with the wider writing surface.</p>
<p>Also, no horizontal bars that make it hard to pick something up if you drop it.</p>
<p>movie chair style seating - better cushions and more space. my elbow always hits my neighbor.</p>
<p>Enough leg room between rows to put a backpack down is nice. In one of my lecture halls you have to cram your backpack down, then theres no room for your legs and anyone who has to come into the row after you is annoyed.</p>