Comfort

Comfort ( from the Latin- English comfort for " convenience " or " comfort " ) is the convenience that is based on the presence of certain machines, objects or equipment. An interior is comfortable due to their possibilities and their equipment with items when they reduced the people work and offers him comfort.

Comfort can be defined generally as well as the absence of discomfort, so as absence of eye-catching unpleasant sensations. Here, it is assumed that man constantly updated compares with previously experienced situations. As long as no discrepancies between the experienced and the expectations placed on the situation persists, this situation is not consciously perceived. Only when differences occur, they are found in practice. Accordingly, the comfort is dependent on the expectations of comfort assessor. Every human being develops a so-called comfort hierarchy. The more comfort needs are already met, the higher needs to be developed. The unmet needs are already taken for granted and no longer perceived.

According to Zhang, and Helander Drury (1996) comfort and discomfort are not arranged on the axis of a continuum. After your cluster analysis of concepts of comfort with the aspect of pleasure, discomfort is connected to the aspect of suffering. It is thus possible to find comfort and discomfort at the same time. Consider the example here, the driving of an extreme sports car. Lens prevails compared to a sedan high discomfort ( vibration, noise, ... ). Subjectively, the driver feels the most pleasure in driving the sports car. Thus contact comfort and discomfort at the same time.

Ride comfort

Comfort in the vehicle technical sense is a general term for the " comfort ", a motor vehicle is able to offer its occupants, and is more or less pronounced depending on the type of the vehicle. The ride comfort is largely determined by the tuning of the suspension ( soft or hard), the handling characteristics (quietly steamed or hard and poltrig ), noise (quiet or loud) and the equipment that facilitates the work of driving the driver (z. B. servo assistance for the steering, automatic transmission, and others) or the occupants relaxed travel permits (eg, comfortable seats, they will be judged using the KFS method).

Hotel

Comfort is also the official name for a 3 -star hotel in Germany. This has to provide an above average standard.