A subjective framework for seat comfort based on a heuristic multi criteria decision making technique and anthropometry

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-28

  Fazlollahtabar, Hamed ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (Iran)

Author keywords

Automobile seat comfort; Conceptual framework; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; AUTOMOBILES; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHIES; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONSUMER'S PREFERENCES; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUE; QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES;

AUTOMOBILE SEATS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; CAR; CASE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; ERGONOMICS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEAT; SITTING;

EID: 77957321292     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2010.04.004     Document Type: Review

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