An apparel product search system was proposed, in which customers can refer to products through several stores. With the system, the user can search for apparel products by inputting category information and/or Kansei measure values. A unified format of category information of apparel products suited for the search was developed. The Kansei search was performed by using some measure values of Kansei words. The distance between the customer input of Kansei information and store side evaluation are calculated, then the closest products are shown. Semantic differential (SD) method and statistics analyses were used for selection of measure terms and evaluation of efficiency of the search. Generally, the Kansei evaluation of a product of the store side doesn't agree with customer evaluation. Some learning methods were investigated to improve the effectiveness of the search. In the learning, Kansei evaluations of individual customer and store side were made with some products beforehand. Statistical analysis was made with the results of the SD test to find effective methods. If learning is enough, the efficiency of search improved by using the linear multiple regression equation between store side and individual customer's evaluations.

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We have inspected that correlation dimension analysis of electroencephalograms (EEG) was useful as a method for evaluating thermesthesia objectively. EEGs were recorded with ten Ag-AgCl electrodes affixed to the subject's scalp with and without clothes in the chilly environment. The correlation dimension of EEG without clothes was significantly smaller than with clothes. This result agreed as a result of sensory test for thermesthesia. There was no significant among ten electrode placements. From these results, we conclude that the correlation dimension would appear to be a criterion to describe thermesthesia.

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Recently, in the field of the accommodation design of passenger ship, it is increasingly been demanded alternativesh ave to be examined in three dimensions even in initial stage of the development. As a helping tool for such demands system which output three-dimensional prototype from designer's sketches has been constructed here. In this paper that system is presented through the description of its usage in a specific case. It has been found that the system completes it's task appropriately after simple appraisal is carried out for the figure which the system outputs. Considering the non-linearity concerning design and the vague knowledge, fuzzy inference was applied to calculate the value of the parameters which was used to define the figure.

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In this study the survey was conducted using a questionnaire by means of the conjoint analysis and AHP, in order to examine empirically and quantitatively the influence of consumers' awareness of the environment over their purchasing behaviors. By comparing the results obtained from both analysis methods, the gap was quantitatively measured between the consumers' logical recognition and actual product-selection behaviors, or between consumers' awareness of the environment and their purchasing behaviors. As a result, the following points have been clarified:
1) There is a gap between consumers overall logical thinking (attitudes) and specific product-selection behaviors.
2) While consumers take into consideration various attributes when thinking of daily life goods like kitchen detergent at the attitude level, there is a notable tendency of carrying a specific attribute when actually selecting products.
The other purpose of this study is the pursuit of the environment-conscious product concepts and the estimate of market potentials of such concepts. As a result of the analysis, the following points have been clarified:
1) A promising environment-related concept is a kitchen detergent which is environment-friendly, low-priced and high in popularity. The possibility of good sales is high for a product made, based on this concept.
2) The possibility of good sales is low if a product is made based on the concept of environment friendliness, but low popularity and high prices.

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In recent years, designing products with which consumers or users are never satiated become more significant for designers and makers. The purpose of this work is to show factors of the satiety of Product design for Design evaluation. In the first half of this paper, after document investigation, it is found that satiety in products was almost the same process to change fromlike to dislike as satiety in foods. Thus we have proposed the hypothesis of satiety as follows: (1) Contact opportunity and Monotony, (2) Psychological satisfaction and Psychological dissatisfaction, (3) Plus identification and Minus identification. The hypothesis thatsatiety in products takes place in the process to shift from the former to the latter has been examined and considered by both questionnaires and the interview survey using portable audio products in order to confirm it. As a result, not only the hypothesis was muchverified by both research and survey but also other factors not defined in it were found. It is also found that the change of such value as life styles and so on has a power to prompt the shift from like to dislike and some memories or new meanings added in the product have another power to keep the shift back or delay it Through the case study of mini disk products, the cause relationship between satietyand cognitive parts (form elements) has been analyzed and studied by use of Rough sets and Quantification 1 of Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the latter half. That cause relation in the product was considerably and concretely cleared by the methods.

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This research targets as focus of study the trends for KANSEI engineering in Korea and to compare the result with that of Japan, the country where developed the field of KANSEI engineering, and to confirm the situation of the field of KANSEI engineering.The result obtained through comparison of both countries, it made clear that the study of KANSEI in Korea was centered on the field of application and the mainstream in Japan was the field of sense measurement. Korea was participating in the engineering domains aggressively, but the study on the field of industrial design was extremely small.
Based on these results, this research puts emphasis on making more experts of various fields participate in the study of KANSEI in Korea and indicates the basic direction.

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The goal of this paper is to find how culture exerts influences on subjective preference. Total 42 housewives, 20 from Korea and 22 from Japan participated in the experiment which was conducted by computer-aided survey. A series of 27 questions consisted of 7 cultural variables was given to subjects to find out their basic cultural characteristics of both countries. Subjects also evaluated their subjective preferences against 16 different types of microwave ovens, each of which is consisted of different features and levels. The preference data was analyzed by Conjoint Analysis and relative importance of each feature and utility functions of each level were found out. The result from Conjoint Analysis showed that Korean places most value on layout of control buttons whereas Japanese think skin color as most important attributes. The difference was also found in the perception of brand: Korean put more importance on brand than Japanese. Depth of interface structure was also shown to have different importance between both countries. The results from conjoint analysis and cultural variables were compared to identify the relationship between cultural characteristic and subjective preference. Cultural characteristics were found to have significant relationship with subjective preference. Korean who are more affective, particularistic, ascribing, and externalistic in their cultural characteristic were shown to have a tendency of preferring colorful skin, dynamic layout, and brand. However, in the mean time, Japanese subjects who are more neutral, universalistic, achieving, and internalistic in their cultural characteristic tended to have preference in white skin, grid layout, and lock function. This result shows that cultural characteristic does play a role in forming subjective preference.

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At public places in a grand scale, people get relevant information from signs and move to a certain direction relying on this information. In particular, arrow-shaped signs are essential in direction signs. But the present arrows which are expressed in a twodimensional mode seem to be difficult to understand, as they are pointing some directions in three-dimensional space. Indeed prior study showed that most users had experience of having got lost at the station, and half of them attributed the cause to the ambiguity of the arrows. This study investigated the perception of the present arrows and examined the perceptual effectiveness of new arrows designed in a three-dimensional (3-D) mode. In Experiment 1, for both prevailing arrows in a two-dimensional (2-D) mode and new arrows in a 3-D mode, the subjects (101) were asked to report which directions they indicated. For 2-D arrows, there were confusions in perceiving their directions. On the contrary, 3-D arrows caused no confusions, showing clear pointing of directions. In Experiment 2, for thedi rections of up, down, forward, and backward, the perception of the 3-D arrows was investigated. The result demonstrated that 3-D arrows were pointing ‘forward’ and ‘backward’ most clearly. It was concluded that the present arrows in direction signs could not always point their directions effectively, giving users confusions, while 3-D arrows could do clearly. This suggests that 3-D arrows should be adopted in the direction signs.

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