• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.201-204
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• 2002

Kansei design knowledge acquisition stage is a crucial stage in kansei designing process and kansei engineering (KE) methodology. In kansei engineering methodology, it is essential to extract design knowledge or rules on relationships between customer's kansei and product design element. We attempt to construct a more powerful melted for extracting the design rules from kansei expremental data. We constucted a kansei experiment concerning color kansei evaluation, and analyzed the sane data by both conventional quantification theory type I and rough set theory. Finally, we compared the effectiveness of both methods for extracting rules and examined the extensions of rough set theory in kansei engineering.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.175-177
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• 2002

This paper presents a methodology for analyzing individual differences on Kansei evaluation for a set of product samples. This analysis divides subjects into several groups by each subject's Kansei evaluation data according to what kinds of Kansei are related on what kinds of design elements. The basic idea is to classify the results of cluster analysis in individual subject's ranges. A similarity matrix of subject is computed by comparing dendrogram of each subjects. The methodology is applied to analyzing evaluation data of cellular phone design.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.195-200
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• 2002

ART (Adaptive Resonance Theory [1]) neural network and its variations perform non-hierarchical clustering by unsupervised learning. We propose a scheme "arboART" for hierarchical clustering by using several ART1.5-SSS networks. It classifies multidimensional vectors as a cluster tree, and finds features of clusters. The Basic idea of arboART is to use the prototype formed in an ART network as an input to other ART network that has looser distance criteria (Ishihara, et al., [2,3]). By sending prototype vectors made by ART to one after another, many small categories are combined into larger and more generalized categories. We can draw a dendrogram using classification records of sample and categories. We have confirmed its ability using standard test data commonly used in pattern recognition community. The clustering result is better than traditional computing methods, on separation of outliers, smaller error (diameter) of clusters and causes no chaining. This methodology is applied to Kansei evaluation experiment data analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.20-23
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• 2002

In Japan, deodorizing airflesheners are very popular to make air flesh by deodorizing odor in rooms, toilet as well as inside a car. There are in different features in deodorizing material of Gel and Liquid, in a shape of bottle from tall to low height, in bottle color and so on. These different features will influence the customer's feeling to the products of deodorizing airfleshener. This paper deals with the psychological evaluation of the features of deodorizing airfleshener on the SD scale with kansei words. The evaluated data were analyzed by Quantification Theory Type I that leads to the relational rules between the product feature and the kansei words. The beautiful and graceful kansei consists of low height, middle width deformed round shape, but easy operational feature is based on tall shape design. These results are helpful to develop a new product of deodorizing airfleshener.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.39-49
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• 2010

Provision of in-vehicle warning information is of keen interest since it can be effectively used to prevent traffic accident on the road. This study evaluates the effectiveness of information provision modalities based on kansei engineering. Various warning information scenarios using different modalities are devised for the evaluation. Statistical data analysis techniques including factor analysis, correlation analysis, and the general linear model are used to assess the user's affect for information modalities. The evaluation result shows that the provision of visual information consisted of 'text and pictogram' leads to higher understandability. The combination of beep sound and voice message' was identified as a more effective modality for auditory warning. In addition, the red color for the blinking warning signal was preferred by users.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.23-36
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• 2000

In conventional ergonomics, consumer product can be made based on anthropometric data and specific design guideline. However, the product may not satisfy consumers because their emotional preference have not been properly considered in design phase. Therefore, in this study a new chair design process was introduced by which both consumer's emotional need and traditional ergonomic requirement can be satisfied. As a part of the process, the traditional Kansei engineering technique was modified to collect quantitative information of consumer's visual appreciation and physical feedback of various types of chairs. Furthermore, we developed an interface, so called, KADAS(Kamsung Analysis and Design Assistance System), for designers to use the technique in chair design. This software can help designers to understand what should be the most suitable shape in designing items such as seat, back and arm rest, etc. to meet the emotional need of consumers. This software displays the result of modified quantification theory I, and explains how to use the statistics. This study suggested a new approach for ergonomic design incorporated with Kansei Engineering technique. This technique can be also applied to other products by extending the database of KADAS.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.393-401
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• 2007

Affective aspects of design attributes such as color, Pattern, and texture are important to the overall impression and the success of interior products. Among all the interior materials, wallpapers and flooring materials take up largest construction area and they are main components in creating affective impression for customers. This study aims to investigate the relationship between luxuriousness and related affective variables and design elements of wallpapers and flooring materials. The approach consists of 3 steps: (1) selecting related affective features and product design attributes through a literature survey, opinion of expert panel, and focus group interview, (2) conducting evaluation experiments, and (3) developing Kansei models using multivariate statistical analysis and analyzing critical attributes. Evaluation experiment was conducted using a questionnaire made up of 7-point scale and 100-point scale and 30 housewives and 20 interior designers participated in the evaluation experiment. The result of evaluation was analyzed through principal component regression and quantification I analysis. As a result of analyzing the survey data, the relationship between luxuriousness and related affective features and product design attributes was identified, moreover a optimal combination of the design component was identified. Consequently, it is expected that the results of the study would be a basis of the concept of emotion-based design by giving insights about how customers perceive the luxuriousness and suggesting the optimal combination, and providing specific quantitative design guidelines.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.2D
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• pp.265-273
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• 2006

On the occasion of high price oil generation, we have to promote activation policy for public transportation and hold back to use passenger car, it is very important to improve of sidewalk environment for pedestrian. Evaluation for sidewalk environment will be fixed with sensibility to feel pedestrian. So, study for sensibility about comfort etc. to feel pedestrian will be carried out. In this paper, researchers interests in engineering methods to make material considering sensibility and image of human. Therefore, we carried out recognition experiment for sidewalk environment with Kansei engineering, and made a quantitativedata of sensibility adjective that it was surveyed by semantic deferential method. After grasp factors by principal analysis, we found factor effect to design criterion and sidewalk environment preference. So, we could identify a design factor for comfort environment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2326-2328
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• 2004

인간의 감성은 인간의 생활에서 논리적 사고와 의사결정, 감정의 발생, 행동 등 모든 부분에서 관련을 가진다. 이런 인간의 감성을 정성 정량적으로 측정 평가하여 제품이나 환경 설계에 응용한다면 더욱 편리하고 안락하며 안전하게 하는 등 인간의 삶을 쾌적하게 할 수 있다. 그래서 인간의 감성을 파악하기 위한 연구가 여러 방향으로 추진되고 있으나, 인간의 감성이 상당히 주관적이고 애매하며 불확실하기 때문에 이를 객관적이고 합리적으로 파악하는데 많은 어려움이 있다. 이 논문에서는 Chroma 법을 이용하여 개별적 인간 감성 자료를 얻었고, 이렇게 수집된 감성 자료를 평가하기 위한 방법으로 클러스터 분석법을 이용한다. 그리고 개별적 인간 감성 자료에 대한 사례 연구를 통해 자료 평가의 타당성을 검증하고자 한다.

• KSCI Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.191-195
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 영상으로부터 한국적 감성 데이터를 추출하고 감성 컨텐츠 프레임워크(ISC) 구축을 통해 영상데이터를 다양한 멀티미디어 데이터와 함께 사용자에게 전달하는 시스템을 제안한다. 이를 위해 먼저 영상으로부터 객체를 분리해내고 각각의 특징벡터 모델을 구축한다. 특징벡터모델은 요소인자로써 벡터공간의 데이터로 입력되고, 정규화 된 한국어 형용사 데이터와의 근접도를 비교하여 대표 감성을 표현하게 된다. 또한 감성 컨텐츠 데이터의 3층 구조를 이용하여 멀티미디어 데이터를 분류하고 대표 감성형용사와의 인자사상을 통하여 다양한 영상-감성 컨텐츠를 제공하는 프레임워크를 설계한다. 이것은 다양한 영상의 추상데이터에 대응한 감성표현을 추출하여 영상에 내포되어 있는 정확한 의미를 관찰자에게 전달할 수 있다.