The Relationship Between Seat Pressure and Comfort TNO Human Factors

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Oudenhuijzen, Aernout, author.

Conference Name:

Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Conference and Exhibition (2003-06-16 : Montreal, Canada)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2003

Summary:

With rising customer expectations, driver comfort will become more and more important for car manufacturers in distinguishing themselves from others. This is a challenge, since it is difficult to predict comfort, especially in early design stages. Today, comfort can only be assessed and tested very late in the design a construction process (often using prototypes). Potentially, biomechanic software solutions provide a solution for early comfort testing. Hence, the application of this solution will decrease cost and development time. However, before one is able to create such a software solution, one must have insight into the relationship between mechanical parameters and comfort. This relationship was investigated through a series of experiments in a driving simulator. Both mechanical parameters and comfort were measured. The results showed that seat pressure measurements can be used to quantify driver comfort

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Publisher Number:

2003-01-2213

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license