Kansei Engineering was developed as a consumer-oriented technology for new product development. It is defined as "translating technology of a consumer's feeling and image for a product into design elements". Kansei Engineering (KE) technology is classified into three types, KE Type I, II, and III. KE Type I is a category classification on the new product toward the design elements. Type II util...

In this paper, we introduce a Dynamic Hypermedia System (DHS) for distributed design image databases that can provide simple and flexible user access capabilities based on perceptional link, so called Uansei link method. As a proof of concept, we have developed a prototype system incorporating the DHS model. Dubbed the Textile Design Image Database System, this database aids designers using app...

Kansei engineering is a technology for translating human feelings into product design. Several multivariate analyses are used for analyzing human feelings and building rules. Although these methods are reliable, they require large computing resources. It is difficult for general users to deal with many variables because of small personal computers, and the need for the user to be an expert on s...

This paper discusses results of the study of emotional values in web design through the methodology of Kansei Engineering. An evaluation of visitor’s kansei towards clothing e-Commerce websites were conducted using pre-selected 35 e-Commerce websites, 40 Kansei Words as descriptors of emotional sensation organized in a 5-point Semantic Differential scale, rated by 120 participants. Factor Analy...

Tendencies in product development of today make it likely that many future products will be functional equivalent and therefore hard to distinguish between for the customer. Customers will decide by highly subjective criteria which product to purchase. One task for product development in this context is to be able to capture the customer’s considerations and feelings of products and translate t...

It has been getting important recently to take a local resident's request into consideration for coastal improvement works. Based on the questionnaire survey for the coastal primary psycho-scenes, items that related to the coastal primary psycho-scenes were studied. The items have four types; activity in amenity spaces, things and natural phenomenon, five physical senses and Kansei(sensitivity)...

© Kansei Imaging: first steps Boris Oicherman, Carl Staelin HP Laboratories HPL-2009-12 affective imaging, color emotion, image emotion, image enhancement, image processing, image manipulation Kansei engineering (also called affective engineering) studies and develops methods of translating and embedding perceptual and emotional qualities into the product design features. We adopt this principl...

Although the conventional concept of communication is the exchange of logical information, the exchange of Kansei has become very important recently, especially in the case of mobile telephone communications. In addition, it has been recognized that the use of the body, such as facial expressions and gestures, is essential in communications. These facts indicate that technologies that can suppo...

Kansei or Affective Engineering is a relatively new research field in the West. Linköping University in Sweden has been pioneering research and application within Kansei Engineering since 1999. Several companies have cooperated in different Kansei studies, for example Toyota/BT, Volvo, Saab, Scania. In some of the early studies, there were difficulties to apply the methodology. Reasons for this...

Kansei Engineering was regarded as a technology to "translate a customer's feeling of the product to the design elements." In this study an interactive system was constructed on the base of Kansei Engineering to support clothing design process. As a core content and foundation, knowledge base is developed by varied methods such as Kansei engineering method and analytic hierarchy process. When t...