Outputs (5)

Soma design to enhance aircraft passenger comfort (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharafkhani, M., Tennent, P., Argyle, E., & Cobb, S. (2021, September). Soma design to enhance aircraft passenger comfort. Presented at Comfort Congress (ICC2021), Nottingham, UK

Aircraft passengers can become uncomfortable while seated because of the restricted physical space. This work aims to investigate a new strategy for designing interventions that can be used to encourage aircraft passengers to move more while seated a... Read More about Soma design to enhance aircraft passenger comfort.

Posture, movement, and aircraft passengers: An investigation into factors influencing in-flight discomfort (2020)
Journal Article
Sharafkhani, M., Argyle, E., Cobb, S., & Tennent, P. (2021). Posture, movement, and aircraft passengers: An investigation into factors influencing in-flight discomfort. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 68(s1), S183-S195. https://doi.org/10.3233/wor-208016

BACKGROUND: Aircraft passengers’ physical activity levels are often limited during flight for extended periods of time, which can have serious impact on health, comfort, and passenger experience. However, several factors, such as limited personal spa... Read More about Posture, movement, and aircraft passengers: An investigation into factors influencing in-flight discomfort.

Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharafkhani, M., Argyle, E., Cobb, S., Tennent, P., & Houghton, R. (2019, August). Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort. Presented at International Comfort Congress 2019, Delft, The Netherlands

Aircraft passengers’ physical activity levels are often limited during flight for extended periods of time, which can have serious impact on health, comfort, and passenger experience. Passengers are generally advised to walk around the plane and do c... Read More about Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort.

How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsuraykh, N. H., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2019, May). How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected. Presented at PervasiveHealth'19: The 13th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Trento, Italy

Mental Workload (MWL) can be both good and bad; we can thrive under high MWL, or our performance can drop if the demands become either too low or too high. Similarly, stress is not always bad, short term stress can be beneficial to overcome a challen... Read More about How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected.

How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsuraykh, N. H., Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2018, April). How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload. Presented at CHI 2018: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts)

Recent work has demonstrated that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy has the potential to measure changes in Mental Workload with increasing ecological validity. It is not clear, however, whether these measurements are affected by anxiety and stre... Read More about How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload.