Body Type Classification of Korean Female for Designing Driver’s Seat

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Objective: This study aims to investigate body type classification of Korean female according to their age for designing driver’s seat. Background: Driver’s seat has major impacts on comfortable driving, driving performance, and purchase decision. Therefore, it is important to design the seat with consideration of body type of drivers. However, there is a lack of studies for the body type of female drivers. Method: First of all, 43 dimensions, which are related to driver’s seat design, among 125 static body dimensions were selected from a sample of 2180 Korean female anthropometric data. The 43 dimensions were factorized. Lastly, clustering analysis was conducted based on three age groups of 20s, 30s and 40s, and 50s. Results: Four factors were found from the factor analysis; thickness of torso, length of torso, length of arms and legs, size of hip. Each age group showed four major body types from the cluster analysis. Conclusion: The four major body types were different across the age groups. The age group 20s had dominant body type of relatively bigger upper body compared to lower body. The dominant body type of rest two groups were a balanced type over both upper and lower bodies. Application: It can be helpful for understanding important factors of drivers’ body type on designing comfortable driver’s seat. Further it is expected to be applied on designing other products which require the understanding of characteristics of body type.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• ABSTRACT
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Method
• 3. Results
• 4. Conclusion
• References