Title :
Kansei engineering: the implication and applications to product development
Author :
Nagamachi, Mitsuo
Author_Institution :
Kure Nat. Inst. of Technol., Hiroshima, Japan
Abstract :
Kansei engineering is a powerful ergonomic consumer-oriented technology for a new product development. Kansei is a Japanese word of psychological feeling or image which a consumer will have in mind when purchasing some thing. For instance, the customer has such kinds of kansei of “speedy, easy control and good styling” for a passenger car. Kansei engineering is able to transfer these “kansei” to the design field. Kansei engineering is defined as “translating technology of the customer” feeling (kansei) about a coming product into design elements. Kansei engineering has been applied to industries of automobile, construction machine, home electric appliance, housing, costume, etc. It has been adopted in Japan, Korea, England, Sweden, and the Netherlands
Keywords :
ergonomics; human factors; manufacturing data processing; product development; psychology; Kansei engineering; consumer-oriented technology; ergonomics; industries; product development; psychological feeling; Automobiles; Automotive engineering; Construction industry; Design engineering; Ergonomics; Machinery production industries; Power engineering and energy; Product design; Product development; Psychology;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5731-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.816563