Today‟s trends in product development indicated that inclusion of consumer‟s need to the technical aspect of product design will determine their success in the market. Explicit needs are clear and easy to describe. However, the implicit needs such as emotional experience are difficult to quantify. This paper introduces methods and techniques than can be used to capture consumers‟ needs in gener...

In this paper, we propose a visualization method of music impression in facial expression to represent emotion. We apply facial expression to represent the complicated and mixed emotions. This method can generate facial expression corresponding to impressions of music data by measurement of relationship between each basic emotion for facial expression and impressions extracted from music data. ...

New food product development is so often confronted with failure in the market. One of the significant reasons is, nowadays, the customer preference is no longer simply only determined by a few factors rather a combination of various needs. This article presents an affective engineering methodology “Kansei Engineering” which can tailor the product by the customer need. This methodology is able ...

Keen competitions in the global market have led product development to a more knowledge-intensive activity than ever, which requires not only tremendous expert knowledge but also effective analysis of design information. Kansei Engineering as a customer-oriented methodology for product development, often has to analyse imprecise design information inherent with nonlinearity and uncertainty. Thi...

Facial caricaturing process should be investigated and modeled from multiple viewpoints of three relations among the model, the caricaturist and the gallery. Furthermore, some kinds of interactive mechanism should be installed in order especially to implement the relation between the facial caricature generation system PICASSO[ I ] and gallery. In this paper, we propose a dynamic caricaturing s...

Flowers for a gift are not only goods, but a medium carries a message to maintain social relationship between the sender and the receiver. Some flowers are welcome, and the others are not so, in association with whether the image of the sent flowers which come to the receiver's mind meets the human relationship or not, and is suited for the purpose or not. We developed a system aimed to incorpo...