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Subjective response experiments were performed to examine the effects of gender differences on uncomfortableness based on subjective response to whole-body vibration. Subjects were exposed to a series of single axis vibration stimuli, the direction of which was for-and-aft, lateral or vertical. Subjects' postures considered in this study were standing and seated postures. Vibration accelerations prepared were 0.2, 0.4 and 0.8m/s^2rms. As a result, regardless of body postures, subjective response values obtained from male subjects were higher than those of female ones in for-and-aft and lateral directions. This result suggests that males feel more uncomfortable than females for exposure to for-and-aft and lateral whole-body vibrations.
