Abstract
This paper presents topics of the method of evaluating tactile sensation of the industrial product such as clothes or cloth goods using Kansei measurement. Generally, when buying clothes or cloth goods, consumers will evaluate the clothing comfort such as tactile sensation, clothing pressure and microclimate in clothes. The tactile sensation is the important factor to decide the product's value. So far, the tactile sensation has been evaluated by sensory evaluation or physical properties of the material. However, the tactile sensation isn't completely evaluated on these bases. Recently, a measurement of physiological response has emerged as a physical criterion to describe the tactile sensation. The physiological response has the following advantages : (1) The mental stress by touch can be measured in the unconscious state. (2) Time series analysis of the tactile sensation is possible. In this paper, we introduce research topics that have investigated creating evaluation criteria using physiological response such as the electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram and activity of the autonomic nervous system.
