Information retrieval systems are certainly useroriented, where how to reflect user’s subjectivity becomes an important and hard problem. When a user wants to search for something, for instance a passenger car or a costume, he/she normally have a kind of feeling such as “graceful and looks intelligent, but not so expensive.” This feeling is called as “Kansei” in Japanese, which means the user’s...

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...

abstract: the aim of this research is to propose a new approach of kansei engineering, kano model and taguchi design of experiments to identify, categorize and prioritize customersʹ emotional needs (kansei) in the automotive industry in order to more customer satisfaction. to achieve the above aim, first customersʹ kansei words identified and screened; then these words classified based on kano ...

bicycle riding is one of the attractions in kish island that is known as an entertainment and enjoyable sport. moreover, it is beneficial to the environmental goals and tourism industry. for this aim, the bicycle rental system is provided by nineteen bicycle stations that have been distributed all around the island by kish free zone organization; also, to spread the bike riding culture and incr...

In this paper, we introduce a Dynamic Hypermedia System (DHS) for distributed design image databases that can provide simple and flexible user access capabilities based on perceptional link, so called Uansei link method. As a proof of concept, we have developed a prototype system incorporating the DHS model. Dubbed the Textile Design Image Database System, this database aids designers using app...

Consumers' Kansei needs reflect their perception about a product and always consist of a large number of adjectives. Reducing the dimension complexity of these needs to extract primary words not only enables the target product to be explicitly positioned, but also provides a convenient design basis for designers engaging in design work. Accordingly, this study employs a numerical design structu...

Tendencies in product development of today make it likely that many future products will be functional equivalent and therefore hard to distinguish between for the customer. Customers will decide by highly subjective criteria which product to purchase. One task for product development in this context is to be able to capture the customer’s considerations and feelings of products and translate t...

In the literature of e-Commerce website development, qualities of usability and usefulness have received the main attention of researchers. However, with the rapid growth of e-Commerce, there is a growing concern to improve e-Commerce interface by engineering the affective appeal in the website design. Kansei Engineering is a translating technology of a consumer’s feeling and image for a produc...

Consumers’ emotional requirements, or so-called Kansei needs, have become one of the most important concerns in designing a product. Conventionally, Kansei engineering has been widely used to co-relate these requirements with product parameters. However, a typical Kansei engineering approach relies heavily on the intuition of the person who uses the method in clustering the Kansei adjectives, w...

Kansei design methods are successful in the Japanese industry and academic worlds. Outside Japan, their level of development and recognition is nothing compared with the situation inside of Japan. One of the reasons is that there is currently no comprehensive description of Kansei and Kansei studies written for the international community. This paper intends to provide such description, to anal...