Toward Generalized System Modeling Incorporating Kansei

Along with diversified requirements for products, the importance of Kansei is increasing. While Kansei engineering has been studied to handle sense and feeling related to products, most studies are specific to a case. Thus, experiments need to be planned for each case, and the results of those experiments are difficult to be reused in different cases. This hinders wider application in industries. Therefore, construction of a generalized model is required. For the establishment of a generalized system modelling that incorporates Kansei, this paper reviews both Kansei engineering works and system modelling works and discusses possible approaches. Characteristics of system models were analyzed in light of necessary features of Kansei models. As a result, the absence of a generalized calculation model for Kansei engineering was recognized as an issue. For the construction of a generalized system model incorporating Kansei, establishing typology of Kansei seems relevant. As an approach toward system modeling of Kansei, this paper proposes to construct a general calculation model for each type of Kansei metric.