Usability Trials of Alternative Child Restraint Attachment Systems 973301
This paper describes usability trials conducted to determine the ease of use and incidence of misuse of four alternative child restraint/vehicle attachment systems compared to the current system attached via the vehicle seat belt and a top tether. The accuracy of use of each of the alternative systems was significantly higher than the conventional system, and the 76 participants reported they were much easier to use. Systems which utilise the ISOFIX pins were used without difficulty by participants who had no prior experience with this concept. The systems which depend on the users to tighten side straps on the child restraints were improperly installed more frequently than the ISOFIX pin systems.
Citation: Pedder, J., Gane, J., Pasco, D., Deibert, M. et al., "Usability Trials of Alternative Child Restraint Attachment Systems," SAE Technical Paper 973301, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/973301. Download Citation
Author(s):
Jocelyn Pedder, John Gane, Douglas Pasco, Marg Deibert, Michael Lumley
Affiliated:
RONA Kinetics and Associates, Ltd., Insurance Corp. of British Columbia, Britax Child-Care Products Pty., Ltd.
Pages: 9
Event:
41st Stapp Car Crash Conference
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Child Occupant Protection 2nd Symposium Proceedings-P-316
Related Topics:
Child restraint systems
Safety belts
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