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In this study, a sitting comfort of five automotive seats, whose hardness of these cushion pads was changed, and shape and structure of seats were the same, was evaluated by only tactile sensation while sitting on these seats. The adjectives used for the sensory evaluation of seat comfort by the human tactile sensation were examined by the factor analysis. As the analysis result, the sitting comfort of driver's seats was evaluated by two adjectives "sporty-high-class" and "voluminous-casual". From the correlations between physical properties of cushion pad and sensory evaluations for seats, it is found that the image adjectives have correlations with the cushion properties of pad.
