Research on seat perceived comfort evaluation based on factor analysis

CATARC Automotive Test Cent (Tianjin) Co.,Ltd. No.68, East Xianfeng Road, Dongli District, Tianjin, China

^* Corresponding author: qiaoyu@catarc.ac.cn

Abstract

Car seat is one of the most important parts of the direct contact with consumers, consumers' subjective perception of seat comfort depends on the choice of car, and the automobile industry in the perception of car seat comfort evaluation and research work, is still in its infancy, convened by the project through to the six major cities, 900 consumers respectively for 18 to subjective comfort evaluation of standard models, this article selects three same level models of standard models, for example, through the factor analysis method to calculate the subjective comfort ratings, and use the objective measurement data of subjective rating transverse comparison test. The results show that the subjective comfort score can reflect the comfort degree of the seat.