REPRODUCIBILITY OF CONTACTED SURFACE AREA RATIO OF HUMAN BODY IN VARIOUS POSTURES TO SIT DIRECTLY ON A FLOOR

摘要

Posture sitting directly on floor is used as relaxation posture in Japanese living style. It is necessary to obtain contacted area between the human body and a floor to calculation of the human heat dissipation through a floor for heating design. There are the previous studies regarding the contacted area, but their reproducibility has not been verified.