Kansei Marketing and Complex Systems

Interactive Systems Design: A KANSEI based Approach

1 This research is partially funded by the EU IST Projects CARE HERE (Creating Aesthetically Resonant Environments for the Handicapped, Elderly and Rehabilitation) no. IST-2001-32729, MEGA (Multisensory Expressive Gesture Applications) no. IST-199920410 (www.megaproject.org), and by National Projects COFIN2000 and CNR project CNRG0024AF “Metodi di analisi dell’espressività nel movimento umano p...

Complex fuzzy linear systems

Trends integration process as input data for Kansei Engineering Systems

The main current evolutions in industrial design research are the following : 1 The computerization of the early design phases 2 Consumer and user centered design with in particular emotional design 3 The concurrent engineering, with collaborative work supporting tools Our goal is to modelize the preliminary phases of traditional industrial design process, in order to build new computer aided d...

Beyond Kansei Engineering: The Emancipation of Kansei Design

Acknowledging the relevance of kansei engineering both in the industrial and the academic worlds, the current situation in the field of kansei research seems ready for the emancipation of other disciplines that are actually numerous and already significantly active. In this paper, the overview on how the literature describes kansei and kansei engineering points out the reason why other discipli...

Kansei, surfaces and perception engineering

The aesthetic and pleasing properties of a product are important and add significantly to themeaning and relevance of a product. Customer sensation andperception are largely about psychological factors. There has been a strong industrial and academic need and interest formethods and tools to quantify and link product properties to thehuman response but a lack of studies of the impact of surface...