WHAT REALLY CONNECTS IN SEATING CONFORT? STUDIES OF CORRELATES OF STATIC SEAT COMFORT

Evaluations of 20 seating environments were conducted using rating scales, subjective probabilities, and adjective chekc lists with a representative driver population to develop reliable indices of physchological seating comfort. Concurrent measurable physiologic variations were also recorded to determine relationship patterns. Primary psychological descriptors were identified for each seating environment. Subjective data was compared with physiological data and SAE seat dimensioning findings. Multivariate canonical correlation analyses of 32 variables are reported, as are subjective profiles for each seating environment. /GMRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • Habsburg, S
  • Middendorf, L
• Publication Date: 1977-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 51 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Comfort; Data collection; Drivers; Psychophysics; Seats; Surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Subjective analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Psychophysical methods
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00165018
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 770247
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 23 1977 12:00AM