Researchers investigate airplane seat accommodation

Whether for business or personal

a

travel, now, more than ever, thousands of Americans spend their days in the air. While most airplane passengers are hoping for maximum comfort during their flights, airline companies look to maximize their profits—sometimes at the expense of passengers' space.

How to meet the seat needs of airline passengers isn't something that has been quantified, so a team of researchers at Penn State set out to measure seat accommodation.

Through the Open Design Lab, a research lab which focuses on design problems for human variability, Elizabeth Miller, mechanical engineering and Schreyer Scholar alumna, was exposed to the lack of understanding centered around airplane seat design. Miller conducted the research as an undergraduate at Penn State.

Source https://phys.org/news/2019-05-airplane-seat-accommodation.html