A collaborative tagging system design framework for supporting affective design

Affective or kansei design engineering is a design approach that can help designers to produce emotionally pleasing products. One of the research challenge of this approach lies in understanding customers´ affective needs and how to associate such needs with product design features. Previously, we have proposed a collaborative tagging methodology towards understanding associations between affective needs and product design features through analyzing product reviews. In this paper, we proposed a framework for collaborative tagging system design as an extension of our previous work and actual web-based implementation of our approach. We showcase the design of our web-based system which includes client interface layer, web application layer and back-end application processing layer with detailed elaboration on essential system components and modules. Some potential benefits of implementing such a collaborative platform are also briefly discussed.