Communication Tool Design Supported by Kansei Information Study

Kansei Information support for Design Process -1-

Abstract

Kansei works as a medium of explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge. In a human communication, we use subconscious knowledge processing and expression to support natural, smooth and intuitive understandings. To understand how human's emotional status are affected by, we focused on the behavioral reaction, including self oral evaluation. In this study, based on two experiments, the relationship between intuitive communication and expression are highly depended on 1) time characteristics of emotion and expression, 2) cultural and experience based characteristics of human's kansei.