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Study on Relationship between Discomfort and Body Pressure Distribution on the Seat under Height of Footrest and Angle of Seatpan  

Park, Dong-Woon (Department of Mechanical Design Engineering, Pusan National University)
Ahn, Se-Jin (Research Institute of Mechanical Technology, Pusan National University)
Yoo, Wan-Suk (School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.15, no.6, 2007 , pp. 38-43 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a study is described on finding a relationship between discomfort and body pressure distribution. In the first step, experiments were conducted to find correlation between pressure distribution and discomfort. The experiments of 12 people on 9 seats were performed. In the second step, parameters and correlation coefficients were determined between the measured body pressure distribution and median values of the subjective evaluations of 12 subjects using psychophysical power law.
Keywords
Body pressure distribution; Subjective assessment; Seat comfort; Physical characteristics;
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