As a technology-enhanced student-centered learning environment, smart classrooms are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. It is undoubtedly important to understand how seating and motivational factors affect situational engagement and s...
Semi-outdoor learning spaces are becoming increasingly popular with both students and teachers at tropical universities; however, some of the seats are always vacant. This study focused on the selection of seating in semi-outdoor spaces in a universi...
Urban park green spaces are key infrastructure for improving the quality of the living environment, enhancing residents’ well-being, and strengthening ecological resilience. Targeting 1760 county seats in China, this study combines the stock an...
China’s inter-provincial border areas (IPBAs) are largely located in mountainous, riverine, and other ecologically sensitive regions, where human activities interact intensively with natural ecosystems. Their urbanization is often constrained b...
This paper presents a systematic review, conducted in accordance with PRISMA guidelines, synthesising evidence on how visual and spatial features of classical concert settings—such as performer visibility, seating position and sightlines, stage...
The deployment of intelligent automated vehicles (AVs) introduces in-cabin hazards that have received limited systematic attention: entrapment, crushing, and pinch-point injuries produced by powered mechanisms such as folding electric seats. Children...
While management of patients with deep-seated intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is well established, there are scarce data on patients with ICH who require prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) during the course of their acute disease. Therefore, we ai...
22 May 2024
Although seatbelt use is known to reduce motor vehicle occupant crash injury and death, rear-seated adult occupants are less likely to use restraints. This study examines risk and protective factors associated with injury severity in front- and rear-...
Many car drivers in Malaysia, especially young drivers, ignore the importance of wearing seat belts. This questionnaire study employed an extended version of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) by including habit as a new construct to explain the f...
The choice of not buckling a seat belt has resulted in a high number of deaths worldwide. Although extensive studies have been done to identify factors of seat belt use, most of those studies have ignored the presence of heterogeneity across vehicle...
Air cell-based wheelchair seat cushions are widely used for pressure ulcer prevention in individuals with limited mobility. However, the influence of ambient pressure variations on the mechanical surface pressure acting on users has not been systemat...
While an extensive body of research exists regarding the delivery of course knowledge and material, much less attention has been paid to the performance effect of seating position within a classroom. Research findings are mixed as to whether students...
28 January 2022
This study aimed to investigate associations between demographic, anthropometric and vehicle factors and the fit of adult seat belts in children aged 7–12 years in passenger vehicles. Seat belt fit was assessed by inspection of 7–12-year-...
The seat comfort of automobiles is one of the significant factors for determining the driver’s fatigue, emotional experience, and individual space (which captures their individuality, rather than just a means of transportation in modern society...
The purpose of this study is to identify airline asymmetric attributes that affect customer satisfaction based on the three-factor theory and to build an Asymmetric Impact-Sentiment Analysis (AISA) for resource allocation prioritization. We identifie...
Active seat suspensions can be used to reduce the harmful vertical vibration of a vehicle’s seat by applying an external force using a closed loop controller. Many of the controllers found in the literature are difficult to implement practically, bec...
The combination of characteristic parameters is the key and difficult point to improving the vibration attenuation of scissor seat suspension. This paper proposes a multi-objective optimization method based on entropy weight gray correlation to optim...
A Good learning environment should support students’ choices and attract them to stay. Focusing on outdoor views, this research explores two questions: How important outdoor views are in seat selection in learning environments? How do the view...
The objective of this systematic review is to investigate the various approaches that have been undertaken in finite element analysis (FEA) of human–seat interactions and synthesize the existing knowledge. With advances in numerical simulation...
In a sentinel health event investigation of a back disorder claim, the vibration exposure and ergonomic function of a modified suspension seat were assessed. Background: In a forensic occupational injury investigation, an aftermarket-altered operator...
This paper provides insights into where and how to integrate textile inductive electrodes into a car to record optimal-quality respiratory signals. Electrodes of various shapes and sizes were integrated into the seat belt and the seat back of a drivi...
This paper presents an experimental study of vibration energy recovery from a horizontal seat suspension system in which a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor is used as both an active force actuator and a controllable regenerative braking element....
In the context of sustainable regeneration of urban communities, the sustainable construction of community urban furniture has gradually been emphasized. This study focuses on the existing problems of experience, culture, environmental protection, fu...
10 October 2017
We explored the factors influencing the use of age-appropriate car seats in a community with a high proportion of Aboriginal families in regional New South Wales. We conducted a survey and three focus groups with parents of children aged 3–5 years en...
Farmers experience whole-body vibrations when they drive tractors. Among the various factors that influence the vibrations to which the driver is exposed are terrain roughness, tractor speed, tire type and pressure, rear axle width, and tractor seat...
Well-designed urban public spaces often attract residents and play a critical role in improving people’s wellbeing. Many studies have examined the importance of one or a few environmental features in urban public spaces, such as the size of the...
As the proportion of the world’s elderly population continues to increase, the need for age-appropriate public facilities is rising. This study investigated the key elements affecting older people’s satisfaction with public seating in par...
Automotive seat comfort is a critical factor in enhancing driver satisfaction, especially in sports cars, where design must balance comfort features and performance-oriented features like lateral containment and anti-submarining. This study adopts an...
Color is an important visual element of high-speed train seats, which has a significant impact on passenger travel experience. In order to solve the problem that color design relies on the subjective experience of designers, this study aims to establ...
As the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) progresses, new seating arrangements are emerging. Face-to-face seating is common in SAE L4 AV concepts and is intended to facilitate social interaction during autonomous driving, enabling previously un...
Presently, most passive safety tests are performed with a precisely specified seat position and carefully seated ATD (anthropomorphic test device) dummies. Facing the development of autonomous vehicles, as well as the need for safety verification dur...
Coordinating the construction of villages and towns with the county as the basic unit and promoting the optimal allocation of infrastructure and public utilities within the county is an important measure to improve the rural habitat and enhance the w...
Defining a passenger’s thermal comfort in a car cabin is difficult because of the narrow environment and various parameters. Although passenger comfort is predicted using a thermal-comfort scale in the overall cabin or a local area, the scale&r...
In seating comfort research, it is known that the pressure should not exceed a certain threshold from the viewpoint of tissue compression and should be widely distributed. However, its ideal distribution is not defined in past research. It is also kn...
Airlines have launched various ancillary services to meet their passengers’ requirements and to increase their revenue. Ancillary revenue from seat selection is an important source of revenue for airlines and is a common type of advertisement....
In the transportation organization optimization of high-speed railway (HSR), optimizations such as line planning, ticket pricing, and seat allocation are generally studied separately. However, in reality, when passengers choose trains, they need to c...
This study examines the three-axis vibration isolation capabilities of a full-scale magnetorheological (MR) seat suspension system utilizing experimental methods to assess performance under both single-axis and simultaneous three-axis input condition...
The use of suspension preview information obtained from a quarter vehicle model (QvM) to control an active seat has been shown by the authors to be very promising, in terms of improved ride comfort. However, in reality, a road vehicle will be subject...
Most countries have active road safety policies that seek the objective of reducing deaths in traffic accidents. One of the main factors in this regard is the awareness of the safety measures, one of the most important being the correct usage of the...
Being seated has increasingly pervaded both working and leisure lifestyles, with development of more comfortable seating surfaces dependent on feedback from subjective questionnaires and design aesthetics. As a consequence, research has become focuse...
This article discusses the current requirements for laboratory testing of the fire properties of seating in railway vehicles and the criteria for their assessment. The results of flammability and smoke tests performed on selected passenger seats and...
Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) remain one of the most prevalent occupational health problems worldwide. To prevent the development of these WMSDs in an office space, a chair designed for office monitoring capable of accura...
In this study, we integrated virtual reality (VR) goggles and a motor imagery (MI) brain-computer interface (BCI) algorithm with a lower-limb rehabilitation exoskeleton robot (LLRER) system. The MI-BCI system was integrated with the VR goggles to ide...
There is a growing interest among healthcare managers and designers in moving towards a ‘patient-centred’ design of health and care facilities by integrating patient perceptions and expectations of the physical environment where care takes place. Inc...
Seat selection in learning spaces intuitively reflects user preferences for micro-environments and facilities. To address the lack of integrated analysis of multi-dimensional factors in existing research, this study constructs a framework merging mul...
Transportation agencies often rely on manual surveys to monitor seat belt compliance; however, these methods are limited by surveyor fatigue, reduced visibility due to tinted windows or low lighting, and restricted geographic coverage, making manual...
It is known that high-speed craft crews are subjected to repeated vertical shock during wave slamming, and that such exposure is related to lumbar spine injury and with poor operational performance. Most previous seat-design studies have modeled the...
Sitting comfort is an important factor for passengers in selecting cars, airlines, etc. This paper proposes a soft robotic module that can be integrated into the seat cushion to provide better comfort experiences to passengers. Building on rapid manu...
Background: Staphylococcus aureus is a significant pathogen causing both local and systemic infections in children, with deep tissue involvement leading to severe complications. This study aimed to assess clinical manifestations and identify risk fac...
A choice to use a seat belt is largely dependent on the psychology of the vehicles’ occupants, and thus those decisions are expected to be characterized by preference heterogeneity. Despite the importance of seat belt use on the safety of the roadway...
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