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	glossary: Kansei engineering
		Kansei is a Japanese term which means psychological feeling or image of a product.
		Kansei engineering refers to the translation of consumers' psychological feeling about a product into perceptual design elements.
		Kansei engineering is also sometimes referred to as "sensory engineering" or "emotional usability." This technique involves determining which sensory attributes elicit particular subjective responses from people, and then designing a product using the attributes which elicit the desired responses.
	www.ergolabs.com /kansei_engineering.htm (403 words)

	KANSEI Information Processing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		KANSEI is a Japanese word that does not have a direct counterpart in Western languages, or, however, every attempt to translation captures just some of the aspects of KANSEI.
		KANSEI is an ability that allows humans to solve problems and process information in a faster and personal way.
		KANSEI is related both to problem solving tasks and to information analysis and synthesis.
	www.infomus.dist.unige.it /Research/Kansei.html (393 words)

	k_Glossary
		Kansei engineering is a consumer-oriented technology process used to develop products.
		Kansei engineering can be applied not only on the over-all product but also on specific parts of the product.
		Samples of products that have used Kansei engineering are the Mazda Miata, the colorful and rounded Komatsu construction machines, and the first TV cameras that were produced by Sharp.
	www.thequalityportal.com /glossary/k.htm (379 words)

	Innovation & Technology News - Robot in touch with its inner feelings - 05/09/2005
		Kansei's ability to communicate feelings makes it one step closer to recognising when humans are happy or sad, an important characteristic for machines expected to one day help care for the elderly, clean the house, or greet people at a reception desk.
		Kansei, which means "sensibility" and "emotion" in Japanese, also contains speech recognition software, a speaker to vocalise, and motors that contort artificial skin on its face into expressions.
		For example, when Kansei hears the word "fish" it refers to the database to analyse the associated words and the strength of their relationship.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/tech/InnovationRepublish_1453189.htm (543 words)

	Project No
		Kansei engineering, by providing a window into the heart and mind of the consumer, may be the key to designing and producing a new class of textile fabrics and products.
		An important outcome of Kansei research is the discovery that stimuli that obey a 1/f relationship on a log/log plot of power spectral density versus stimulus frequency (f) engender well-being and harmony, while brain alpha wave fluctuations of a comfortable/content individual are also found to obey the 1/f relationship.
		There is a strong case for investigating the applicability of 1/f as the most promising "Universal Kansei Tool" which can be utilized for designing 1/f stimuli engendering products on the one hand and for interpreting physiological response to monitor favorable reaction on the other hand.
	www.p2pays.org /ref/04/03841.htm (1379 words)

	Robotics, Circuits, Mechanics, Servo Motors, Controls and etc
		And now a humanoid robot named Kansei is able to frown or smile according to a flow of artificial consciousness.
		Kansei's ability to communicate feelings makes it one step closer to recognizing when humans are happy or sad, an important characteristic for machines expected to one day help care for the elderly, clean house, or greet people at a reception desk.
		Kansei, which stands for "sensibility" and "emotion" in Japanese, also contains speech recognition software, a speaker to vocalize, and motors that contort artificial skin on its face into expressions.
	www.toddlertime.com /robotics/kansei.htm (325 words)

	Kansei's Trip to Quebec
		Hi, everyone - Jack & Anne & Kansei are resubscribed after a two week vacation trip from the DC area to Quebec and return.
		Great fun was had by all, and while Kansei experienced no language barrier (handled the metric system quite well, in fact, apparently as it's his native system) I had innumerable opportunities to use the American phrase, "pardon my French." A trip report, heavily Miata oriented, follows below.
		I mildly regret not taking Kansei up Mt. Washington in NH, but we wouldn't have seen a thing from the 6200 ft. summit with the cloud cover the way it was, and hey - to a guy who grew up out West, with all due respect, a 6200 ft.
	www.miata.net /misc/kansei.html (1810 words)

	Kansei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kansei (å¯æ”¿) was a Japanese era after Tenmei (å¤©æ) and before KyÅwa (äº«å’) and spanned from February, 1789 to March, 1801.
		Because of calamities such as a fire at the Imperial Palace, on the 25th day of the 1st month (old calendar) of Temmei 9 (1789), the era became Kansei (Tolerant/relaxed/broad-minded government)
		This page was last modified 01:47, 8 April 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansei (78 words)

	Kansei Engineering Group at LiTH
		Kansei Engineering can "measure" the feelings and shows the correlation to certain product properties.
		Mazda used Kansei Engineering in the development of its model Miyata (in Europe: MX 5).
		This underwear producing company collected Kansei data about the usage of a common Brassiere and designed based on this information a new model.
	www.ikp.liu.se /kansei/wike.html (307 words)

	What is kansei Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Namely, the purpose is realization of rich society, the structure is a network of social elements joined with pipes each other and the function is the mutual recognition between elements and the formation of interrelationship.
		KANSEI is the integrated functions of the mind, and various functions exist in during receiving and sending.
		KANSEI is the integrated functions of the mind.
	www.jske.org /whatiskansei.html (248 words)

	MX-3.com - Mazda Motor Corporation Emblem Information
		KANSEI Is A Japanese Word Which, Roughly Translated, Means: "To Feel Just Right." All Mazda Vehicles Are Manufactured With This Goal In Mind.
		Mazda calls it "Kansei Engineering" and the goal realized by this process is cars and trucks that are deeply satisfying to own and drive.
		"Kansei Engineering" has become an integral part of the development of each new generation of Mazda cars and trucks.
	www.mx-3.com /emblem/kansei.cfm (292 words)

	Kansei Information Processing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kansei is a kind of individual valueness on each user.
		We consider Kansei is very important to user ecntric technology.
		In the proposed "Kansei retrieval" system, content will be required to be properly indexed in terms of subjective characteristics such as features, color, shape, and motion.
	www.pluto.ai.kyutech.ac.jp /~kaori/kansei.html (156 words)

	BBC Online - The Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kansei is the corporate philosophy of the entire Mazda organisation, but seems open to some regional interpretation.
		Rather than the UK process-based definition, the website of Penney Mazda in Newfoundland refers to Kansei Engineering as a selling point for their cars.
		In the January 1997 issue of the International Association for the Management of Technology Newsletter there is a summary of a conversation from the design-research@mailbase.ac.uk mailing list, about the use of Kansei Ergonomics for improving the design of a wheelchair.
	www.bbc.co.uk /works/s3/nyman/links.shtml (370 words)

	terremoto.net: kansei engineering
		Kansei is a japanese term where the syllable kan means sensitivity and sei means sensibility.
		Kansei Engineering is especially interesting for us, who work in designing interactive products.
		This is a translation of a post titled Ingeniería Kansei: incorporar emoción y afecto en el proceso de diseño, originally posted on 03/14/2003.
	terremoto.net /kansei (448 words)

	KANSEI Quality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		KANSEI Quality is the quality expressed by the image and the feeling which human hold.
		At the introduction, we state KANSEI Quality is the quality expressed by the image and the feeling which human hold.
		Although the SD method was used from the former in research of KANSEI quality, the selection method of the evaluation terms was experiential.
	www.tqm.mgmt.waseda.ac.jp /study/kansei_e.html (853 words)

	KANSEI Information Processing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		KANSEI is a Japanese word that does not have a direct counterpart in Western languages, or, however, every attempt to translation captures just some of the aspects of KANSEI.
		KANSEI is an ability that allows humans to solve problems and process information in a faster and personal way.
		Therefore, KANSEI is not a synonym for emotion, although it can be related to emotion, but refers to the human ability of processing information in ways not just logical (Hashimoto, 1997).
	musart.dist.unige.it /Research/Kansei.html (393 words)

	Feasibility Study of Human Media Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(3) Kansei media technology models the subjective information of a specific user, such as a personal knowledge of something, a taste, a feeling on something, an emotion, an intention, and ideas, and so on.
		Knowledge media technology and kansei media technology enable us to share, extend and re-use the subjective information, including pieces of personal knowledge and a personal feeling, as well as a large amount of objective information in a natural manner.
		Knowledge media technology, virtual media technology and kansei media technology, which are the technical elements of human media technology will be combined in the appropriate rate, and research and development will be carried out through integration in each mini-projects.
	www.ltg.ed.ac.uk /also/human-media.html (4917 words)

	Blog Entry "what about joy..." from IA? EH.
		It is used to express the quality of an object for producing pleasure through its use.
		It's things like that, and perhaps this that make me think sometime in this century, we are going to wake up and find that the Japanese have become the tastemakers of the world.
		I recall one of the Japanese auto manufacturers (Mazda?) used to run ads extolling the firm's "kansei engineering," which I mentally translated to something close to (but beyond) "ergonomics," something like "pleasure in use." Since I don't know any Japanese it appears that they did a good job of communicating the meaning of the term.
	www.eleganthack.com /archives/what_about_joy.php (325 words)

	Ingeniería Kansei: incorporar emoción y afecto en el proceso de diseño. - [terremoto.net]
		Ingeniería Kansei: incorporar emoción y afecto en el proceso de diseño.
		Kansei es un término japonés donde la sílaba kan significa sensitividad y sei significa sensibilidad.
		Marco Van Hout está centrando su tesis de máster en incorporar la Ingeniería Kansei en el diseño de interacción.
	www.terremoto.net /x/archivos/000052.html (487 words)

	Kansei Systems Engineering - Digital Asset Managers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Digital Asset Management is a methodology of managing and preserving the authenticity of electronic artifacts through the use of metadata to preserve descriptive information throughout the asset's lifecycle.
		Digital Asset Management systems are comprised of ‘cradle to grave’ work process technologies that track, manage and audit information from their generation, revisions, storage, publication and archival.
		Kansei Systems Engineering L.L.C.’s unique approach to Digital Asset Management is built upon over 15 years experience in the information technology field coupled with records management discipline.
	www.ksefactors.com (247 words)

	Kansei Engineering and Lifestyle QFD
		Show Kansei software options that are available today and how to begin applying Kansei methods on your next project.
		The Kansei Engineering Workshop will be taught by Glenn Mazur.
		Mazur is an international authority on QFD and leading Kansei practitioner/trainer in the U.S. who recently presented his work at the 1st International Kansei Engineering Conference in Japan.
	www.qfdi.org /workshop_kansei.htm (601 words)

	1996 AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kansei Reforms (eponymous with the era, 1789-1800) are symptoms of an anxiety over fuzoku, in which inter-male sexuality played a major part: it was widely discussed, or expunged from discussion.
		Wakashu portraits, for example, formerly popular, disappear from Kansei art, likewise fuzoku paintings suggesting a normalcy for same-gender eroticism; onna-girai (exclusive same-sex orientation, including adult) was utterly submerged in the inequality of adult-child nanshoku.
		The Kansei experiment did not necessarily last, but it provided a defining moment, and one from which the study of a gender modernity can sensibly start.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1996abst/japan/j9.htm (1152 words)

	Note for contributors(JSKE)
		Kansei Engineering International, or KEI, is published by the authority of the Japan Society of Kansei Engineering(JSKE).
		Kansei Engineering International accepts articles in the entire fields of Kansei; the human reaction from sensory to mental state, that is, sensitivity, sense, sensibility, feering, esthetics, emotion, affection and intution.
		Captions to be of the form; Figure 1: Application Form for KANSEI, Table 1: Application Form for KANSEI, etc. All figures to be numbered sequentially in accordance with their first reference in the text.
	www.jske.org /journal/forcontributors.html (1094 words)

	The Magazine for the Mazda Enthusiast - Mazda Sport Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's the realization that the fitness of every constituent part underlies the goodness of the whole, that the aforementioned synergy between driver and car can be honed so that it can be felt by anyone who experiences the vehicle in motion.
		Another Kansei canon is that every aspect of design, mechanical function, and dynamic response ultimately contribute to driving satisfaction.
		While saving weight is a top priority for achieving Jinba Ittai, other concerns were the stiffness of the unibody structure, the height of the car's centre of gravity, 50:50 weight distribution and the vehicle's moment of inertia about the vertical (yaw) axis.
	mazdasportmagazine.com /articles/mazda-mx-5-jinba-ittai.php (1067 words)

	SMC 2004 - IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
		In ``Kansei'' data analysis, the behavior of the evaluators is often focused on, because of exploring items or objects arrying weight.However, the obtained result by use of the average data does not provide such a character.
		In this paper human Kansei to colors is studied investigating the relation between colors of food and feelings of tastiness of food.
		What we feel tasty to food is not related to only the sense of eating but also the sense of smell, sight, touch, hearing, etc., and especially the sense of sight is the most delicate sense organ compared with other sense organs of human body.
	www.ieeesmc2004.nl /?menu=program.&slotid=12 (1128 words)

	mprove: The Interface of Kai Krause's Software
		Kansei speakes to a totality of experience: colors, sounds, shapes, tactile sensations, and kinesthesia, as well as the personality and consistency of interactions.« [ Tog96, pp.
		All were dedicated to building a single, tightly integrated environment – a totality of experience.
		KPT Convolver (…) is a marvelous example of kansei design.
	www.mprove.de /script/99/kai/2Software.html (1041 words)

	Calsonic Kansei - Exhaust Systems
		Calsonic Kansei develops and manufactures complete exhaust systems, from the intake manifold through to the exhaust manifold, catalytic converter and muffler.
		Calsonic Kansei is developing an exhaust system and catalytic components that comply with the international automobile exhaust gas regulations.
		Calsonic Kansei's proprietary configuration and manufacturing methods give the converters high reliability and consistent cleaning performance under a wide range of operating conditions.
	www.calsonickansei.co.jp /english/products/ex_system.html (634 words)

	S. Hashimoto and the research about KANSEI in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He considers that a system to create art with human (sic) has to understand not only the user's intentions, but also the environment of performance with multi-modal sensing ability.
		According to the author, in 92, the Japanese Ministry of Education started a three year grant program in ``Kansei information processing'', which was followed by another special grant program on ``Virtual Reality''.
		Over 50 research groups from different fields (computer science, physiology and psychology) have joined the program and were divided in four groups: Kansei modelling, kansei information in media, kansei in human behavior and kansei in communication.
	recherche.ircam.fr /equipes/analyse-synthese/wanderle/Gestes/Externe/Rel_Kansei/node4.html (317 words)

	Kansei Engineering Product
		Mazda learned of Kansei Engineering from the project team members who frequented the ergonomics laboratory at Hiroshima University where Kansei Engineering research began some 30 years ago.
		When the car manufacturer decided to develop a brand new sports car with the young adult market in mind, the project team followed the Kansei Engineering processes and began by video taping as well as taking pictures of young drivers maneuvering, steering, and controlling cars.
		This Kansei was examined in an ergonomic experiment in which subjects (young drivers) were asked to evaluate which length of a shift lever best fit this Kansei feeling.
	www.qfdi.org /lifestyle_qfd_and_kanseiengineering_miata.htm (349 words)

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