| What is Kansei Engineering? | Roughly translaites into feel, emotion or effect You apply kansei |
| Example of a company that uses Kansei engineering? | Mazda with the MX5, one of the first car desings to ask the end user that they wanted |
| What fields does KE look into? | Engineering Phsycology Philosophy Natural Sciences Statistics |
| Why is there a need to change to KE? | Company profit (new products) Environmental necessity (electrification) Societal changes (new male/female roles) Legislation (getting people to use safety equipment) Technical progress (technology push) |
| What is a model of KE and its definitions? | Semantic space; All the ways people may respond to the product Design space; All the features of the product that can be changed Synthesis; combination of design and semantic |
| What are some KE research questions? | Which features elicit a particular emotional response? Which user attributes affect emotional response? What aspects of the emotional response are elicited by a product feature? |
| What are 3 distinct data dimensions? | Products with different design features Wide range of emotional responses Representative sample of prospective users |
| What are some examples of emotions that a user may feel? | Excited Optimistic Proud Ambitious Conservative Confident Bored Pessemistic Humble Daring Confused |
| Examples of applications of KE? | Cars Phones Prosthetics Waiting rooms Councelling Animals and robots |
