Product development becomes more and more complex. Products obtain more and more functions and at the same time they must be still attractive for the customers to ensure a successful product launch. To predict their acceptance and to gain knowledge on how to design attractive products new methods are developed in the field of the emotional design. Such a method is the Kansei Engineering, which ...

Our knowledge of the world comes to us through sensory channels. We sense light or dark; hot or cold; and pleasure or pain. This is how we understand and interpret our environment. From birth we learn what these sensory experiences mean and how society expects us to respond to them. This sensory language is highly contextual and inherently dynamic. However, the traditional methods of visual and...

I present an extension of Kansei mediated communication in the field of cultural computing. I propose to do so by implementing Cultural Computing concept and enriching it with Kansei Mediated Interaction. I present some inspiration for my approach in terms of culture and then discuss them. I relate my work to the Eastern and to the Western world, i.e. I use cultural examples from Japan and Engl...

An optimization approach for suggesting product design parameters based on emotive responses is proposed that combines Kansei techniques and particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO). The approach involves designing a Kansei survey for collecting data on customers’ affective responses to various aspects of a product, using several exemplars of the product. After information gathering, the PSO...

In this paper, we discuss ‘design experience’ is one of the factors which differ between designers and users by the result of Kansei quality evaluation. In this research, we want to clarify design experience grows what kind of characters, and how these characters influence Kansei quality evaluation by two experiments. The first one was let the subjects categorize many images of benches, based o...

When did the modern human appear? Was it sudden or gradual? These are getting the most important theme not only in Archaeology, but in the evolution of human mind. The important thing in judging when humans evolved into modern humans is when humans obtained the modern human mind. However, thus far, the evolution of the modern human mind has been discussed mainly from archaeological, anthropolog...

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...

A novel Customized Agro-industrial Produce Design (CAPD) scheme is highlighted to monitor the plant factory production systems. The expected outcome is to provide every consumer with a produce that matches his or her unique mentality. The new challenges of CAPD are consisting of non-linear and complex interaction between the bio-response parameters and human mentality process involved. As the s...