Comfort model for automobile seat

Comfort on automobile seats is lived daily by thousands of drivers. Epistemologically, comfort can be understood under the theory of complexity, since it emerges from a chain of interrelationships between man and several elements of the system. This interaction process can engender extreme comfort a...

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Published in:Work (Reading, Mass.) Mass.), 2012, Vol.41 (S1), p.295-302
Main Authors: da Silva, Lizandra, Bortolotti, Silvana Ligia Vincenzi, Campos, Izabel Carolina Martins, Merino, Eugenio Andrés Díaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automobiles
Brazil
Ergonomics
Female
Humans
Male
Models, Theoretical
Pain - prevention & control
Stress, Physiological
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Summary:Comfort on automobile seats is lived daily by thousands of drivers. Epistemologically, comfort can be understood under the theory of complexity, since it emerges from a chain of interrelationships between man and several elements of the system. This interaction process can engender extreme comfort associated to the feeling of pleasure and wellbeing or, on the other hand, lead to discomfort, normally followed by pain. This article has for purpose the development of a theoretical model that favours the comfort feature on automobile seats through the identification of its facets and indicators. For such, a theoretical study is resorted to, allowing the mapping of elements that constitute the model. The results present a comfort model on automobile seats that contemplates the (physical, psychological, object, context and environment) facets. This model is expected to contribute with the automobile industry for the development of improvements of the ergonomic project of seats to increase the comfort noticed by the users.
ISSN:1051-9815
1875-9270
DOI:10.3233/WOR-2012-0172-295