Application of Kansei Engineering and Association Rules Mining in Product Design

The Kansei engineering is a technology which converts human feelings into quantitative terms and helps designers develop new products that meet customers- expectation. Standard Kansei engineering procedure involves finding relationships between human feelings and design elements of which many researchers have found forward and backward relationship through various soft computing techniques. In this paper, we proposed the framework of Kansei engineering linking relationship not only between human feelings and design elements, but also the whole part of product, by constructing association rules. In this experiment, we obtain input from emotion score that subjects rate when they see the whole part of the product by applying semantic differentials. Then, association rules are constructed to discover the combination of design element which affects the human feeling. The results of our experiment suggest the pattern of relationship of design elements according to human feelings which can be derived from the whole part of product.

Authors:

• Pitaktiratham J.
• Sinlan T.
• Anuntavoranich P.
• Sinthupinyo S.

Keywords:

• Association Rules Mining
• Kansei Engineering
• Product Design
• Semantic Differentials

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