Differences of Psychological and Physiological Responses between Mono- and Multi-sensory Information on Clothing Pressure Sensation

Abstract

The purpose of our study is to investigate the effect of clothing pressure on physiological and psychological responses in order to create a method for evaluation of clothing comfort. We get much information through visual sensation, so studies on the influences of visual information on clothing pressure sensation is very important. In this paper, we have measured physiological and psychological responses in the clothing pressure sensation under 3 visual conditions; Condition 1 was that the subjects had their eyes open and looked forward, Condition 2 was that the subjects looked at themselves in a mirror, and Condition 3 was that the subjects without a waist belt look at other subjects who wore a fastened waist belt. We concluded that it is important to consider the effects of visual information as well as the effect of clothing pressure sensation in the evaluation of clothing comfort sensation.