Studies on the Thermal Insulation of the Rubber Gloves for Home-Use

Part 2: Evaluation of the Thermal Insulation of Gloves

Abstract

The thermal insulation of seven kinds of rubber gloves for home-use was compared in the water by means of the human thermal sensation. The human thermal sensation were evaluated by:
1) By determining the point of subjective equivalent (PSE) of the human thermal sensation for hands with and without gloves in the water.
2) By comparing the thermal sensation of two kinds of gloves and scaling it by the Scheffé's paired comparison method.
3) By analyzing the confusion of the thermal sensation for two kinds of gloves using Kruscal's nonmetric multi-dimensional scaling (NMDSCAL) method.
The results obtained showed that PSE method and NMDSCAL method could explain sufficiently the characteristics of the thermal insulation of seven kinds of gloves.