Johnson Controls presents its seating comfort concepts
Dr. Susanne Frohriep, Manager New Technologies at Johnson Controls GmbH, Germany, presents how Johnson Controls define and measure comfort as well as how they adjust to human variation.
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Seating Comfort Concepts by Dr. Susanne Frohriep - Seat Systems Human Factors
1. INNOVATIVE SEATING 2014
Seating Comfort Concepts
Dr. Susanne Frohriep
Seat Systems Human Factors
2. Seating Comfort Concepts
Agenda
Johnson Controls Automotive Seating T&AD
Defining Comfort
The Interrelationship of Comfort and Discomfort
Methods for Measuring Comfort and their Reliability
Embracing Human Variation
Technology 2 & Advanced Development Group
4. Technology & Advanced Development Group Automotive Seating
Mission and Role
Product Groups drive product and process excellence
Technology Group Mission:
Provide Product Groups with unique technologies
that help them to be best-in-class
with innovative, differentiating products
3 – 10 Years 1 – 3 Years Market Ready
AE Seating
Technology
Product
Groups Products
Advanced
Product
Development,
Phase 0
Market-available
Technology
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Differentiating
5. Technology & Advanced Development Group Automotive Seating
Technology Domains
Senior technology experts in
each Domain – Domain
Leads – build a “critical mass”
of expertise around them
Each Technology Domain
develops a strategy and
implements a roadmap for
developing a leading
technology portfolio
Cross-functional project
teams deliver differentiating
technologies that enable our
Product Groups to be
best-in-class
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6. Seating Comfort Concepts
Defining Comfort
Historical Definitions
It was previously assumed that “comfort” could be defined as the “absence of
discomfort”, and that
Comfort and discomfort are on two opposite ends of the same scale
These models have been deemed obsolete in current research
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