Subjective assessment of sitting comfort.

Experts in ergonomics research on sitting comfort recommend a number of so-called objective assessment techniques as well as subjective judgements in order to select the best seat for a given purpose and a defined group of future users. In this paper, a variety of subjective evaluation methods such as general comfort rating, body area comfort rating, chair feature checklists, and direct ranking ranking of chairs are presented, and their pros and cons are discussed.