09:30 Registration with coffee & tea

10:00 Welcome & start

11:30 Refreshment break and networking

13:00 Networking luncheon

15:30 Refreshment break and networking

An introductional training to seating comfort, user demands and ergonomics

In our Pre-Conference-Day you will receive a thorough introduction on all major aspects influencing seating comfort research today. Benefit from an information-packed day & discuss your specific questions with our experienced seminar leader. Gain an insight into the major trends in automotive seating to be able to successfully meet your customers' demands and hear about the latest virtual tools you can apply in the design process to decrease development costs.

Last but not least, you will gather hands-on experience in seating comfort research through interactive training and experiments. Get to know colleagues in similar positions and share your experiences and strategies to build up your network in the industry!

The Pre-Conference-Day will cover the following topics:

• The comfort experience process: from expectations, to first sight, to short term and long term comfort
• The best posture is the next posture: possibilities of movement in vehicles
• How to observe postures and translate these into design
• How to let test subjects choose the most comfortable seats
• Lessons from designing seats for earth moving machines, trams, cars and airplanes
• Some virtual comfort tools
• Future seat developments
• The ideal form of the neck, head and lumbar support
• The latest methods to study comfort experience
• Iterative test-design cycles in designing a truck seat
• Design solutions for cultural and anthropometric differences
• Electric vehicles and their influence on seat design
• Defining parts of the construction that should be adjustable
• Ideal angles of the seat pan and back rest
• Using emotional reactions of participants in design

Workshop Leader:

Prof. Dr. Peter Vink
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

17:00 End of seminar