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Clothing comfort during physical exercise – Determining the critical factors
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posted on 2018-06-19, 09:59 authored by Margherita Raccuglia, Benjamin Sales, Christian Heyde, George HavenithGeorge Havenith, Simon HodderSimon HodderClothing comfort is determined by multiple material and design factors. Wetness at the skin-clothing interface mainly impacts wear comfort. The current study investigated the combined effect of fabric contact area, fabric absolute sweat content and fabric moisture saturation percentage on wetness and stickiness sensations, during exercise. Moreover, factors causing wear (dis)comfort during exercise were identified. Higher fabric saturation percentage induced greater stickiness sensation, despite lower fabric contact area and absolute sweat content (typically associated with lower stickiness). Wetness perception did not change between fabrics with different saturation percentages, contact areas and sweat contents. Therefore, fabric saturation percentage mainly affects stickiness sensation of wet fabrics, overruling the impact of fabric contact area and absolute sweat content. No overall model of wear discomfort across all data could be developed, however, models for different time points were produced, with texture and stickiness sensations being the best predictors of wear discomfort at baseline and during exercise, respectively. This suggests that the factors determining clothing (dis)comfort are dynamics and alter importance during exercise activity.
History
School
- Design and Creative Arts
Department
- Design
Published in
Applied ErgonomicsVolume
73Pages
33 - 41Citation
RACCUGLIA, M. ... et al, 2018. Clothing comfort during physical exercise – Determining the critical factors. Applied Ergonomics, 73, pp.33-41.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-05-27Publication date
2018-06-11Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Applied Ergonomics and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2018.05.014ISSN
0003-6870Publisher version
Language
- en