This paper is concerned with human meal preference. For evaluating human meal Kansei (Kansei means human feelings in Japanese.) a method has been proposed to give the scales for human meal feelings as subjective characteristics of food in which the units of the scales are the standard deviations of the standard normal distribution. Here in addition to the method to evaluate human meal feelings ...

This research, conducted for Frito Lay-North America, Inc, demonstrates how new product designs, package designs, concepts, and prototypes can be created based on the social, emotional, cognitive, and sensory information gathered through a combined methodology based on activity theory, Kansei Engineering and the ZMET process. The study examines how activity theory can be used to observe situati...

This paper describes an application where a new Kansei/Affective Engineering (KAE) system was applied to define the properties of the facial images perceived as Iyashi. Iyashi is a Japanese word used to describe a peculiar phenomenon that is mentally soothing, but is yet to be clearly defined. Instead of analyzing facial expressions of an individual to determine his emotional state, the propose...

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 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...

(1) Objective: This paper conducts a comparative study on the perceptual value of fabrics dyed with tea leaves and stems explores changes differences in Kansei image to provide practical guidance for product design based experimental results. (2) Methods: firstly, an effective dyeing method was selected through literature research dye samples. Secondly, words were collected screened out, SD sca...

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...