@inproceedings{19c96cc25d18422bb6a5a9b6dc8350fa,
title = "How to assess sitting (dis)comfort? – An analysis of current measurement methods and scales",
abstract = "For at least 60 years, the research community of human factors and ergonomics investigates the topic of comfortable and optimized seating. Great amounts of scientific publications address the evaluation and often the objectification of the positive as well as negative sensations during sitting. The terms of comfort and discomforts are usually applied to determine the subjective feelings, regardless whether it is for aircraft, automotive or office seating. The great variety of scales being used and experiment designs are considered critical regarding the comparability of published results. After presenting the current state of the art, parameters affecting discomfort evaluations and a meta-analysis of already published studies are introduced. On these bases, the paper concludes with arguments for the necessity of more standardization in the area of sitting research, future research goals as well as important questions to be answered and discussed within the research community of sitting comfort/discomfort.",
keywords = "Assessment, Comfort, Discomfort, Scales, Sitting",
author = "Annika Ulherr and Klaus Bengler",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.; 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018 ; Conference date: 26-08-2018 Through 30-08-2018",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4\_60",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319960647",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "566--575",
editor = "Sebastiano Bagnara and Riccardo Tartaglia and Sara Albolino and Yushi Fujita and Thomas Alexander",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) - Volume IX",
}