26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-6.3.2

IMPACT OF CABIN PRESSURE ON ASPECTS OF THE WELL-BEING OF AIRCRAFT PASSENGERS – A LABORATORY STUDY

G. Grün, A. H. Holm, N. Luks*, J. Malone-Lee**, M. Trimmel***, R. Schreiber****, V. Mellert*****, J. Kos******, W. Hofbauer
Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Germany; *DLR, Germany; **Univ. College London, UK; ***Medical Univ. Vienna, Austria; ****EADS Innovation Works****; *****Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany; ******NLR, Netherlands

Keywords: Aircraft Cabin, Passengers’ Well-Being, Pressure, Altitude, Finger Pulse Oximetry

The EC funded project ICE is looking at the well-being of passengers travelling on long-haul flights. It addresses significant gaps in knowledge with respect to cabin pressure, in particular the impact of pressure in combination with other environment parameters on the comfort of normal passengers and subjects from susceptible groups.

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