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Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort

Abstract— Automotive ergonomics is the study of how automotive can be designed better for human use. The human factor aspect of designing automobiles is first considered at the Vehicle Packaging stage. The term Vehicle Packaging comes to use whenever a new model is in the early stage of...

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Main Authors: Zamri, Mohamed, Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff
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Language:English
Published: 2007
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TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2148/1/Auto_Ergonomic.pdf
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spelling my.ump.umpir.21482015-03-03T07:54:57Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2148/ Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort Zamri, Mohamed Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Abstract— Automotive ergonomics is the study of how automotive can be designed better for human use. The human factor aspect of designing automobiles is first considered at the Vehicle Packaging stage. The term Vehicle Packaging comes to use whenever a new model is in the early stage of study. It is a method to safeguard and protect space for the human user and necessary components that make up the vehicle being designed. Other purposes are to provide alternative solutions and proposals, to ensure the legal requirements are met and to ensure all inhouse requirements are met. This study is to correlate automobiles interior dimensions to comfort factors by means of measuring and survey as well as using ergonomic software. Four cars are compared to achieve this objective. From the result, it can be seen that dimension factors of interior affects the car ergonomic factors. By looking into specific dimension parameters, one can see the differentiation between all four cars. For driver's comfort as well as reach factors, survey shows majority respondents prefer Honda City and Toyota Vios. However from discomfort assessment using Ramsis, it was suggested that both Proton cars gives better comfort for taller population while Honda City and Toyota Vios gives better comfort for shorter population. Other factors evaluated were driver clearance and spaciousness, driver seat and steering adjustability, driver reach ability to surrounding components, driver view (inside and outside), front and rear door entry / exit, rear passenger spaciousness and view, vibration and noise, and trunk space. 2007-12-03 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2148/1/Auto_Ergonomic.pdf Zamri, Mohamed and Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff (2007) Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort. In: International Conference On Ergonomics (ICE2007) , 3-5 Dec 2007 , Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. .
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Zamri, Mohamed
Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff
Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort
description Abstract— Automotive ergonomics is the study of how automotive can be designed better for human use. The human factor aspect of designing automobiles is first considered at the Vehicle Packaging stage. The term Vehicle Packaging comes to use whenever a new model is in the early stage of study. It is a method to safeguard and protect space for the human user and necessary components that make up the vehicle being designed. Other purposes are to provide alternative solutions and proposals, to ensure the legal requirements are met and to ensure all inhouse requirements are met. This study is to correlate automobiles interior dimensions to comfort factors by means of measuring and survey as well as using ergonomic software. Four cars are compared to achieve this objective. From the result, it can be seen that dimension factors of interior affects the car ergonomic factors. By looking into specific dimension parameters, one can see the differentiation between all four cars. For driver's comfort as well as reach factors, survey shows majority respondents prefer Honda City and Toyota Vios. However from discomfort assessment using Ramsis, it was suggested that both Proton cars gives better comfort for taller population while Honda City and Toyota Vios gives better comfort for shorter population. Other factors evaluated were driver clearance and spaciousness, driver seat and steering adjustability, driver reach ability to surrounding components, driver view (inside and outside), front and rear door entry / exit, rear passenger spaciousness and view, vibration and noise, and trunk space.
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author Zamri, Mohamed
Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff
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title Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort
title_short Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort
title_full Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort
title_fullStr Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort
title_full_unstemmed Automotive Ergonomics: Passenger Cars Interior Dimension Parameters and Comfort
title_sort automotive ergonomics: passenger cars interior dimension parameters and comfort
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url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2148/1/Auto_Ergonomic.pdf
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