Abstract
Aiming at improving the quality of life (QOL) of people in everyday living, Kansei Engineering (KE) has been proposed. Since then, while industrial sectors in Japan have applied KE, its methodology has not made much marked progress. The fact that the foundation of KE differs from any of modern technologies seems to bring some difficulties to its application. In order to reduce such difficulties, we begin with the fundamental definition of Kansei and a brief introduction to the characteristic elements of technologies in KE.
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Nagashima, T. (2012). Introduction to Kansei Engineering. In: Saeed, K., Nagashima, T. (eds) Biometrics and Kansei Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5608-7_9
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