Abstract
In this research, agent-based support systems for forming groups based on user's Kansei are proposed. This paper describes a mechanism to grasp user's Kansei elements such as favors or demands. In this mechanism, user's Kansei is evaluated by the semantic differential method, and it is used by the agent to decide a suitable groupmate for its user. In this system, each user has an agent. The agent can understand its user's subjective favors as objective elements by using this mechanism. Moreover, in this paper, two agent-based methods for forming human groups are also described. In first method, groups are formed based on the negotiation among user agents which has the mechanism. In another method, a personnel agent makes arrangement of users' Kansei elements and forms groups based on it. Experiments of forming groups based on two proposed methods for group learning with prototype systems and comparison of them have shown their characteristics.
