Abstract
It is important to develop a measurement technology that can be used to quantify the comfortability of wearing. Up to now however, the most effective way of evaluating comfortability is still the sensory tests conducted by human being . ln this paper, the discriminating ability of panels, which is the sensor in sensory evaluation, was studied. An experiment was conducted to investigate the ability of discriminating the difference in jackets patterns. lt was found from the experiment that the rate of panel members having a high discriminating ability was only 6 percent, which is less than forecasted. lt was also found that the threshold value of discrimination was about 10 mm. SIN ratio. applied in measurement technology was used as an index for discriminating ability, and we concluded that its use was valid and effective.
