A Basic Study of Group Design System Using Kansei Databases

感性工学作为一种面向消费者的人体工程学产品开发，由广岛大学的M.Nagamachi教授在大约25年前创立，并在日本和世界范围内盛行，因为社会欢迎制造商生产面向消费者需求和感受的产品。“感性”指的是消费者对即将到来的产品的心理感受和心理形象。如今，如果产品不符合消费者的感觉，人们就不想买。感性工学被定义为“将消费者的感觉和形象转化为即将到来的产品的设计的技术”。到目前为止，感性工学的研究方法已有5种：(1)类别分类，(2)感性工学计算机系统，(3)混合型感性工学计算机系统，(4)数学感性工学建模和(5)虚拟感性工学计算机系统。成组设计系统，即协同感性设计，是指设计人员通过网络协同设计一种新产品，它具有支持设计的智能化软件和各种感性设计数据库。设计师们可以面对面地互动，也可以交谈。他们可以根据自己的意愿改变设计，并从同事(S)那里转移过来，最终在所有参与者的一致同意下决定最优的设计。通过人机工程学和网站实验，取得了良好的效果，如果能够进行更详细的研究，相信该系统将会在商业上得到应用。

Kansei Engineering as the ergonomic consumer-oriented product development was founded by M.Nagamachi, Professor of Hiroshima University, about 25years ago and it has prevailed in Japan as well as in the world, because the society welcomes that the manufacturers produce the product oriented to the consumers' demand and feeling. "Kansei" means the consumer's psychological feeling and image which he or she will have in mind for a coming product. Nowadays, people don't want to buy, if the products are not fit to the consumers' feeling.Kansei Engineering is defined as "a translating technology of the consumers' feeling and image into design of the coming products'. Methods of the kansei engineering has been investigated so far, and there are five techniques ; (I) Category Classification, (2) Kansei Engineering Computer System, (3) Hybrid Kansei Engineering Compputer System, (4) Mathematica Kansei Modeling and (5) Virtual Kansei Engineering Computer System.Collaborative Kansei Design System using Internet is the sixth technique concerning the present paper. Group Design System, in other word Collaborative Kansei Design, implies that the designers apart from each other cooperate to design a new product through the Internet which has an intelligent software to support the designing and a variety of kansei databases. The designers enable to interact each other looking face to face and talking. They can change the design with his or her intention which is transferred from the colleague (s) and finally they decide the best design with all participants consensus. We obtained the good results through the ergonomic and the Web site experiments and it is sure that the system will be utilized in business, if we can proceed more detail research.