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Review of the Research on Car Seating Comfort

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Improving car seating comfort is very important in the process of car development and design. This paper reviewed the research progress of car seating comfort at home and abroad. Firstly, the related concepts related to the comfort of car seats were introduced, and then the factors affecting the comfort were analyzed in depth. Finally, the subjective evaluation, objective behavior evaluation and physiological parameter evaluation methods for seating comfort were introduced with their advantages and possible problems being analyzed respectively. This paper will provide a large number of theoretical basis and important reference significance for the subsequent development of car seating comfort.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by 2017NQI project (2017YFF0206603), General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ) science and technology planning project (2016QK177) and Project of the President’s Fund for China National Institute of Standardization (522018Y-5984; 522016Y-4488).

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  1. SAMR Key Laboratory of Human Factors and Ergonomics, China National Institute of Standardization, Beijing, 100191, China

    Xiaoli Fan, Chaoyi Zhao, Yongjia Shen & Tong Shen

  2. Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

    Xuemei Chen

  3. China Mobile Communications Corporation Government and Enterprise Service Company, Beijing, China

    Yuwei Jiang

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Fan, X., Zhao, C., Chen, X., Jiang, Y., Shen, Y., Shen, T. (2020). Review of the Research on Car Seating Comfort. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 955. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20227-9_27

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