Aims

The aim of this project (which forms the second year of the CoPET project) is to validate the models generated in the first year about applications and products from various companies in the Valencia Community region. The intention is to assess comfort in a controlled sample of users and thereby use the results to hone the models (objective-subjective comparison model, 2D model of postural comfort based on artificial vision, 3D model of thermal comfort) obtained in 2018.



Thanks to the results obtained, companies in the Valencia Community region will be able to use optimal strategies to assess, validate and design products to define the postural and thermal comfort required by a product quickly and efficiently.

To do so, we have put forward the following specific aims:

1. To look into the relationship between the objective physical and mechanical parameters and people’s perception, covering postural and thermal aspects.

2. To review the libraries associated with artificial vision in order to implement algorithms applicable to the detection and monitoring of angles and postures via video in real time.

3. To combine 3D reconstruction research with thermal imaging techniques based on infra-red images in order to create volumetric thermal maps. These models will make it easier to define thermal comfort in products while focusing on anthropometric solutions, rehabilitation and an evaluation of the user’s functional state and health.

4. To validate the models obtained. The first beta versions of the models developed during the first year will be evaluated with pilots, demos and products from the sectors and products involved in order to evaluate the models and also to attain an improved version of each.