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Compression underwear improves the body’s shape, but its effects on human health and stress remain controversial. Our goal is to develop underwear that applies a comfortable pressure sensation. The participants were eight women who evaluated the perceptible clothing pressure on the body surface in four planes (4th–8th ribs) while wearing a 2.5 cm wide elastic band. Their pressure perceptions were compared between two conditions: when the elastic band was tightened based on the feeling caused by adjusting the length in each plane singly and in all four planes simultaneously. When the clothing pressure was 3–4 hPa, they reported a perfect pressure sensation. When they were constricted on each plane singly, there was a positive correlation between the pressure sensation and the clothing pressure. When the size of covered area increased, the relation between the pressure sensation and the compressed area size was positively correlated (P < 0.001).
T. Aruga—Formerly Faculty of Education, Shinshu University.
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Part of this work was supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant Number 17H01954. We thank Nancy Schatken, BS, MT (ASCP), from Edanz Group (https://en-author-services.edanzgroup.com/), for editing a draft of this manuscript.
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Mitsuno, T., Aruga, T. (2020). Effect of the Size of the Covered Area of the Chest Surface on Pressure Sensation. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Shin, C., Shim, S., Fukuda, S., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_107
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