Construction of the Kansei Information Database and Development of the Software as a Universal Design Support and Evaluation Tool

通用设计（UD）被公认为“设计使所有年龄和能力的人受益”。但是，要实现UD的哲学，考虑心理因素（感性信息）是最重要的。然后，对感性信息数据库和能够理解心理因素的UD支持与评价工具进行了研究，考虑评价项目之间的关系，构建了感性信息数据库和UD的指南/检查表;（1）UD的观点包括物品层次、身体层次和精神层次;（2）人的需要包括基本需要，社会需求和综合需求。另一方面，这些评估项目安排和集成的神经网络和遗传算法模型，最终导致的UD支持和评估工具，可以定量评估的程度，在一个给定的设计的新发展。通过使用该工具，可以创建和实现：（1）指南/检查表，（2）思想的发展和提炼，（3）设计的统一性和方向性。为了验证该工具的有效性，从综合需要和心智水平两个角度提出了设计思想，并对该工具进行了反复修改。并以教育中的UD为例，指出人的心理因素的重要性。

Universal Design (UD) is recognized as "design benefits people of all ages and abilities". But, to realize the philosophy of UD, the consideration of mental factor (Kansei information) is most important. Then, the Kansei information database and the UD support and evaluation tool that was able to understand the mental factor were investigated.The Kansei information database and the guideline/checklist of UD were constructed by considering the relationship between evaluation items ; (1)the viewpoint of UD consisted of Article Level, Body Level and Mind Level, and (2)the people's needs consisted of Basic Need, Social Need and Comprehensive Need.On the other hand, these evaluation items were arranged and integrated by a neural network and genetic algorithmic model ultimately leading to the new development of the UD support and evaluation tool which can quantitatively evaluate the degree of UD present in a given design. By utilizing this tool, the following can be created and achieved ; (1)guideline/checklist, (2)development and refining of the idea, and (3)design unification and directivity.To verify the effectiveness of this tool, the design ideas were proposed from both viewpoints of Comprehensive Need and Mind Level, and the modification of this tool was repeated. Moreover, by taking up UD in education as a case, the importance of people's mental factor was pointed out.