An on-the-road experiment into the thermal comfort of car seats

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 337-347

  Cengiz, Tülin Gündüz ^a   Babalik, Fatih C ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Driving comfort; Road trials; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SEATS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SKIN; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

DRIVING COMFORT; ROAD TRIALS; THERMAL COMFORT; WAIST;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAR DRIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATERIALS; NORMAL HUMAN; SEAT; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SKIN TEST; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 33750943391     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2006.04.018     Document Type: Article

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