A study was conducted in which a total of 22 younger and older participants completed six short-term driving sessions. These sessions involved a subset of combinations of vehicle class (sedan and SUV), driving venue (lab-based vs. field) and seats (from vehicles ranked high and low by J.D. Power and Associates’ Comfort Score). Three subjective ratings (comfort, discomfort, and overall) were obt...

The automotive industry is transitioning towards a more digital future - not just the digitalization of product itself but also process customer interaction, such as during selection process. In process, companies are enabled to collect and analyze large amounts usage data challenged understand gathered data. designing physical components, analyzing, understanding can provide competitive advant...

BACKGROUND Clothing is largely presumed as being the mechanism by which house dust mites are distributed among locations in homes, yet little research to date has investigated the capacity with which various clothing fabric types serve as vectors for their accumulation and dispersal. Although previous research has indicated that car seats provide a habitat for mite populations, dynamics involve...

The Web Ontology Language OWL [5] comes with comprehensive modeling tool support. This sometimes leads to situations where OWL is the modeling paradigm chosen over other formalisms, even if the application scenario does not match the typical usage of this language. For example, problems of a constraint-satisfaction nature do not go well with OWL’s standard semantics. Consider a toy configuratio...

This research paper presents a study and analysis on the existence of ergonomic risks to drivers while sitting in vehicle seat for prolonged periods static posture during driving vehicle. The main aim this article is understand prove hypothesis here car. Test subjects are samples, field experiments at three percentiles namely 5th, 50th 90th percentile range Singapore. demographic parameters tes...