This paper proposes a healthy eating habits support system that recommends menu selections based on a user’s taste preferences and the requirements of long term nutritional balance. This system is comprises a nutritional management system (NMS) and a Kansei retrieval system (KRS). NMS adopts a tabu search method to generate a large number of nutritionally balanced menus by combining multiple re...

It is difficult to define the space that all people can feel comfortable. The reason is partly because comfortness relates to many attributes that specify an environment. People have different preferences, and sometimes even the same person changes his/her preference according the state of health, body conditions, working state and so on. Various parameters and attributes of the space should be...

Evaluation is the systematic determination of the value, merit, worth, and significance of something or someone. In the design field, an evaluating method is no less important han a design methodology, because an effective evaluation is useful for both the best design and the expression of feeling by a user. The aim of this study is to examine the adaptability of an evaluation method using the ...

In the early days of e-Commerce, web designers follow their intuition of how the website should look like. Further development of web design have seen for instance Nielsen’s heuristic, which resulted designers to focus mainly on cognitive functionality and usability. However, as technology advances and e-Commerce matures, the affective quality has become important than ever. Affect has been pro...