The main purpose of this article was to describe the concept of Kansei and its status in ergonomics, to specialists of disciplines such as safety, industrial engineering, and specifically the associates of ergonomic design of products and industrial designers. During last decades the dominate approaches of ergonomics were mainly focused on physical aspects of human body, but along with the deve...

The objective of this research is to develop an intelligent fabric retrieval system using computer-based Kansei algorithms to assist fashion designers in designing costume textiles, as well as to help consumers find their preferred textile samples quickly and efficiently. The fabric retrieval system, based on human psychological Kansei and perception, can stimulate and increase the creativity o...

The delight design platform (DDP) is a vision of a new integrated design environment that would enable design engineers to consistently design delightful products. Such delightful products satisfy an attractive quality as well as the performance and must-have qualities of the Kano model. The attractive quality depends on a customer’s subjective evaluation involving emotion. To implement DDP, we...

The aim of this study is to examine the adaptability of an evaluation method using the visual images to evaluate the impression of a product design based on Kansei. It was compared the impression that user group received from the designed product by a designer with the visual images that a designer assumed motifs for design work, and identified the effectiveness of the design evaluation using t...

This paper argues for the immediate use of Kansei engineering to help deal with the chaotic situation of poorly implemented and disconnected technologies. A theoretical criticism of the current industrial capitalism, together with the promotion of a new post-industrial form of capitalism lays the foundation for a explanation of how this transition can be achieved through a proper understanding ...

Evaluation for ranking is very useful for users in their decisionmaking process when they want to select some item(s) from a large number of items using their personal preferences. In this paper, we will focus on the evaluation of Japanese traditional crafts, in which product items are assessed according to the so-called Kansei features by means of the semantic differential method. In particula...

In recent years, there have been developed various types of real or virtual robots as artificial communication partners. However, they are to play their roles according to programmed actions to stimuli and have not yet come to understand or imitate delicate mental functions of their human partners such as Kansei, one of the topics in this chapter. Kansei evaluates non-scientific matters such as...

In this paper, based on the analyzing of the selecting and distinguishing characteristics of cognitive thinking, the product design elements are analyzed with the theories of Kansei Engineering, and the corresponding mathematic model for the analysis is developed based on the quantification-I theory to quantitatively discuss the relationship between product form design elements and the psycholo...