Comfortable passenger seats

Comfortable passenger seats: Recommendations for design and research

Hiemstra-van Mastrigt, S.

2015

This thesis provides new knowledge on how to design comfortable passenger seats and provides recommendations for design and research. Although the first studies on passenger seat comfort appeared already 40 years ago, the activities and context have changed since then. In this thesis, relationships have been mapped out between activities (context level), anthropometric variables (human level), and seat characteristics (seat level) on the one hand, and comfort and discomfort perception of passengers on the other hand. Results obtained from experiments, performed on aircraft seats, train seats and car seats, provide a better and more practical foundation for these relationships.

ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Life
Healthy Living
Work and Employment
Passenger seats
Car seats
Train seats
Aircraft seats
Comfort
SP - Sustainable Productivity and Employability

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TU, Delft

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doctoral thesis