Theory of comfort

Comfort and Design: Principles and Good Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 13-32

  Vink, P ^a   De Looze, M P ^a   Kuijt Evers, L F M ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

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