EVALUATION OF HARDNESS SENSATION OF RESIDENTIAL FLOOR IN TERMS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR PATTERN

Abstract

Focusing on "walking" "standing" and "sitting", the basic actions of people in their homes, we examined comfort in this study, centered in the "sensation of hardness" of floors during these actions for various floor finish structures based on the results of sensation evaluation tests using the SD method and paired-comparison method. In addition, we also examined correspondence to various physical values relevant to the "sensation of hardness" and the "desirability" of floors, conducted multiple regression analyses and investigated methods for estimating these quantitatively.