Abstract
To present the books that suit children's taste are useful in the practice of reading guidance at school libraries. We have developed the retrieval system using Kansei parameters based on online book reviews of books for children and young adults. In most cases, however, assigning Kansei parameters is not easy for children. It is desirable to present related books by inputting books already read, not by inputting Kansei keywords. To resolve such problems, we have developed a new system, which presents the books which have similar pattern of Kansei parameters of the books input by users. 1245 books for children and young adults were then used to evaluate the system. 10 test subjects evaluated 30 books related to the books input by each of them. The result showed that about 53% of the presented books were judged to be strongly interested.
