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This review summarizes objective methods of measuring the microenvironmental changes at the body\u2013seat interface and examines the relationship between objective measurement and subjective sensation. From the perspective of physical parameters, pressure detection accounted for nearly two thirds (37\/54) of the publications, followed by microclimatic information (temperature and relative humidity: 18\/54): it is to be noted that one article included both microclimate and pressure measurements and was placed into both categories. In fact, accumulated temperature and relative humidity at the body\u2013seat interface have similarly negative effects on prolonged sitting to that of unrelieved pressure. 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