Authors of Keynote Papers: Toshikazu Kato

We, human beings, are sometimes strongly impressed by a grand view, relaxed by a favorite music, upset to inflexible computers, and convinced, or not, to our friends talk. “Kansei,” or in another word, “affection,” is a system responsible for your subjective view of the world. This system subjectively interprets multimedia and multimodal information from other people and objects, and uses this subjective view as the basis for acting upon other people and objects. Kansei can be defined as the system which characterizes the individual personalities.