Disclosed herein is a method of and system for evaluating tactile
sensations of car seat covers using an artificial neural network, in
which mechanical and thermal/physiological characteristics of the seat
covers is measured with a measuring system, the physical quantity of the
measured characteristics is acquired, and then the acquired physical
quantity is converted into the amount of tactile qualities which a person
feels using a statistical recursive model, thereby quantitatively
evaluating tactile sensations of sticky, soft, elastic, coolness to the
touch, and thermal and humid in case of car seat covers made of leather,
and tactile sensations of soft, elastic, voluminous, smooth, coolness to
the touch, and thermal and humid in case of car seat covers made of
cloth, as well as quantitatively evaluating tactile sensations of sporty
and high-class of the leather and cloths using an artificial neural
network model.