著者

菅野 翔平 宮治 裕 富山 健

出版者

日本感性工学会

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.14, no.2, pp.315-323, 2015

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Kawaii is one of the representative concepts of Japan-original Kansei. In this paper, we categorized Kawaii motion of Roomba and investigated the correlation between physical properties of motions and Kawaii-ness. First, we classified motions of Roomba into 10 types. Impressions of those motions were investigated and three of them were found to be Kawaii by subjects. Based on the findings, we formed a hypothesis that variations in acceleration, namely the jerk, affect Kawaii-ness. Second, we evaluated parameters of seven physical properties (position, velocity, acceleration, angle, angular velocity, angular acceleration, and time) of three Kawaii motions of Roomba. Then, we created 24 types of robot motions and evaluated impressions of them. The physical features of created motions were correlated with the Kawaii-ness of them. The result indicated that the jerk certainly affects the Kawaii-ness of motion but not always. It clearly indicated that the Kawaii-ness of motion is multifaceted.

著者

鈴木 康平 松縄 正登

出版者

日本感性工学会

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.1, pp.123-133, 2013

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By the development of the information-oriented society, it became very easy even for beginners to make collages out of photographs by means of computer software. In old days, those photograph collages could be simply distinguished from true photographs because the photograph collages was made by hand. However, it became very difficult to differentiate the true photograph from the photograph collage by digital Image processing. And then, that kind of collage has many problems concerning copyrights or social ethics etc. On the other hand, the photograph collages seem to be accepted as one of the art technique in the recent photograph world. We show three solutions. First, limit of the copyright use by having All rights reserved or not. Second, the detective technique of an unjust reproduction and modification develops. Third, media literacy education is strengthened.

著者

加藤 徹也 青木 滉一郎 菅原 徹 村上 智加 宮崎 正己

出版者

日本感性工学会

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.14, no.3, pp.419-424, 2015

被引用文献数

2

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We produced the average face by combining forty-one facial images of female college students in order to investigate how the facial impression changes depending on distance between eyes and eyebrows. Furthermore, we produced ten experiment samples by shortening or widening distance between them of the average face in five steps respectively. These images were presented individually to ninety college students, and they were asked to evaluate them using twenty adjective pairs. Consequently, the average face received high evaluations about likability-related impressions, while the faces with shorter distance between eyes and eyebrow got high evaluations about activity-related impressions. Moreover, two principal component (“degree of refinement” and “femininity”) were extracted as a result of principal component analysis to evaluation scores. It was found that degree of refinement was likely to be affected by the perceived size of the eyes, and femininity was defined by distance between eyes and eyebrow.

著者

オ ヒキョン 田村 照子 廣川 妙子

出版者

日本感性工学会

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.2, pp.335-341, 2013

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In order to design suitable clothes for elderly women, we surveyed the body image consciousness, types of clothes that were purchased frequently, and clothing fit preference in women aged 60-89 years by questionnaire, and analysed the results by age group. When asked about their body image, more than half of them did not acknowledge any increase in bending of the back despite getting older. Recently purchasing and frequently wearing clothes is such as shirts and pants. However, this study revealed that they do not often purchase or wear skirts or dresses. Their preference when purchasing clothes is to highly value items that “suit their somatotype”, “comfortable” are appealing. Meanwhile, as a result of Primary Component Analysis in each age group, “functional clothing that emphasizes auxiliary life activities” in the first principal component shows a high amount of factor loading.

著者

崔 正烈 増見 洋治 岩谷 幸雄 勝本 道哲 坂本 修一 鈴木 陽一

出版者

日本感性工学会

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, no.3, pp.459-469, 2014

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We developed a signal sound which robustly inform citizens of disaster information even if speech signal is hardly intelligible because of long-path echoes and intense background noise. To do this research, we examined various factors required to develop such a signal sound under actual out-door conditions as well as laboratory (in-door) conditions with long-path echoes by use of multidimensional psychophysical evaluation for several candidate signal sounds as well as some other alarm signal sounds. Based on the experiments, we have finally chosen a single good candidate sign sound.

著者

郭 龍旻 山中 敏正

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.2, pp.131-140, 2011 (Released:2011-12-09)

参考文献数

17

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This experiment started to find the answer to the question like ‘There might be a common stereotype image when people think of a certain object’. In the experiment three different types of character expression (Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana) for ‘chair’ were shown to the object. The object was to sketch the first image brought up when they heard of the word. Through the experiment it was able to find how Japanese think of the object based on their use experience in past. From the result of the experiment most of the Japanese regard the shape of the chair from past memory of early learning period. On the other hand experience of using certain shape of the chair during school years have affected bringing stereotype image up of the object.

著者

池田 千登勢

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.TJSKE-D-18-00033, (Released:2018-07-27)

参考文献数

18

被引用文献数

1

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In 2006 the Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act came into effect, and Type B Continuous Vocational Aid Centers (VACs) were required to support persons with disabilities, design and develop merchandising products to be sold, and improve user wages. This study clarifies the issues regarding development and sales of vocational aid products and necessary support based on (1) questionnaires with 580 local governments and intermediate support organizations throughout the country and (2) visit surveys of local governments and welfare shops actively conducting development and sales support activities for vocational aid products. As a result, in order to solve issues, it is suggested that support for 1: improvement in product value added, 2: enhancement of marketing functions in product planning and sales, 3: efforts to strengthen collaborative activities among VACs are indispensable.

著者

宮下 達哉 木村 敦 岡 隆

出版者

日本感性工学会

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, no.5, pp.561-566, 2018 (Released:2018-12-26)

参考文献数

27

被引用文献数

1

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Several studies have reported the factors which determine individual differences in aesthetic evaluations of visual arts. Our previous studies suggested that the aesthetic dimension of value (ADV) was a crucial factor relating to the individual differences in aesthetic evaluations. However, the paintings used in our previous studies were selected from the masterpieces painted by famous artists. The present study explored whether the ADV would relate to aesthetic evaluations for both good and bad arts. Undergraduates (N = 166) were asked to rate 14 paintings (including seven good arts and seven bad arts selected from the Museum of Bad Art) on four scales of aesthetic evaluation and to complete a questionnaire assessing their degree of the ADV. The results demonstrated that the ADV related to aesthetic evaluations for both good and bad arts. These results suggest that the ADV related to the subjective value of the paintings regardless of their reputation.

著者

竹原 卓真 谷尻 豊寿

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.14, no.4, pp.491-495, 2015 (Released:2015-12-25)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

2 4

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Considering the great popularity of amusement machines and contact lens that magnify the iris, it is clear that eyes play a significant role in facial attractiveness. However, there have been few studies that investigated attractiveness using average faces while manipulating the size of the iris and the shape of eyelid. In this study, we generated average female faces with either flat or double eyelids, we also generated four patterns of the size of the iris, and asked participants to rate their attractiveness and how natural or otherwise the faces appeared. The research found a face with flat eyelids and an iris at 125% of normal size was judged more attractive and more natural than faces with double eyelids. These results suggest that females with flat eyelids can readily enhance their facial attractiveness utilizing commodities such as contact lens that magnify the iris.

著者

増田 恵 加藤 昇平 伊藤 英則

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.2, pp.295-303, 2011 (Released:2011-12-09)

参考文献数

24

被引用文献数

1 6

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A set of movement feature values, called a Laban's feature value set, is proposed here in order to explain observers' impression of bodily expression. The design concept of the Laban's feature value set is based on Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), which is a proven theory in body movement psychology. In this paper, we adopt a Human Form Robot (HFR) as an agent of bodily expression because this is the type of a robot better adapted to Human-Agent Interaction (HAI). Relations between Laban's feature values and HFR's emotions (Happy, Angry, Sad and Relaxation) which are the subjects of this study were examined using the analysis of correlations. By the consideration of Russell's circumplex model of affect, we discussed the correlation in terms of each axial (“pleasure-displeasure” and “degree of arousal”) characteristics. Next, principal component analysis was conducted to examine multi-dimensional correlations. Finally four estimated emotion equations are generated by using the Laban's features.

著者

大久保 重孝 井出野 尚 竹村 和久

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, no.3, pp.485-491, 2010 (Released:2016-11-30)

参考文献数

25

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We proposed a new mood induction technique using pictures of smiling baby faces and presented example of application on the technique in choice experiment. Based on Baby Schema (Kindchenschema: Lorenz, K. 1965), we hypothesized that a baby face which consist of a big head, relatively large eyes, and the rounded shape elicits altruistic emotion and positive affect. We conducted a choice experiment using the proposed technique. Subjects were presented slides of smiling baby faces before the choice task. The result of the experiment showed that the baby faces elicited positive mood and then promoted the uses of simple heuristics. This finding suggested efficiency of the proposed technique as a mood induction method.

著者

森 善一 斎藤 祐基 上出 寛子

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, no.1, pp.9-15, 2012 (Released:2012-02-08)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

2 4

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In recent years, along with the development of robot technology, it has become possible to move dolls and toys realistically. Robot therapy is expected to achieve similar effects to those of animal therapy. However, which element of a robot is important for robot therapy has not been examined. We surmise that humans obtain more emotional healing based on biological functions related to hugging a doll with similar size and weight to those of a human baby. This paper describes analyses of the relation between human impressions and elements of the object such as size, weight, motion, and touch. The experimentally obtained results for human impressions using dolls of five kinds, including a robot, were evaluated. The results show that motion, tender touch, sufficient size to be hugged, and weight suggestive of a human baby all gave humans good impressions.

著者

竹原 卓真

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.2, pp.255-263, 2013 (Released:2013-04-18)

参考文献数

15

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The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the typeface of the brand name and the shape of the sake bottle on impression formation on the sake and the estimation of its price. Participants rated their impressions and prices of nine stimuli patterns that were combinations of three typefaces of the brand name (mincho, gothic, and semi-cursive script) and three shapes of sake bottles (slender, shoulder dilated, and stocky). A factor analysis revealed six factors: commonplaceness, unattractiveness, clarity/stability, familiarity, lightness, and gentleness. In addition, the combination of the mincho typeface and slender shape conveyed commonplaceness, the gothic/semi-cursive script and stocky shape conveyed novelty, and the semi-cursive script and slender shape conveyed attractiveness. Moreover, the combination of the semi-cursive script and slender shape conveyed a high price. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the semi-cursive script had low familiarity and the low familiarity led to a high price.

著者

橋田 規子 大久保 優希

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.TJSKE-D-18-00008, (Released:2018-08-06)

参考文献数

8

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This study is about the connections between the sense of taste image and the sense of shapes. For the previous research, Velasco experimented on the subjects if they felt the exact taste which he assumpted by showing those sample forms. But in this study, we made the subjects output their images of each taste as abstractive sketches. The objective of this research is to find out if there is a unification between many people's image of tastes and the taste which was shown, and to find out the common factors in images of each taste when the subject's images diverged. By mapping the collected taste of image-forms, we found out that there was a certain degree of unification in each taste of image, because each taste showed a different dissemination condition and split into different groups. Also by extracting the forms which people strongly feel the images of the flavors, we found out that there were 40 standard forms and patterns of transformation in total. For the verification, we asked the subjects how the standard forms and their transformation effects their sense of taste of image. And we concluded that there is an advanced form which strongly effects people's sense of taste of image, by transforming the standard forms.

著者

大澤 弘樹 森屋 舞子 桑原 教彰 鉄谷 信二

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, no.4, pp.573-579, 2012 (Released:2012-10-19)

参考文献数

14

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In recent years, the media develops rapidly, and various media comes up. In the IT (Information-Technology) society, visual information exists a lot. In this situation, mosaic processing is used to hide the image information that must not be understood. However, mosaic, depending on conditions of processing and viewing distance, has a problem such as understanding processed images by mosaic. In this paper, we investigate conditions of understanding Japanese character images under mosaic processing. In addition, we perform visual experiments of the character images for anti-aliasing processing, geometric patterns and contrast.

著者

中森 志穂 水谷 奈那美 山中 敏正

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.3, pp.321-326, 2011 (Released:2011-12-28)

参考文献数

22

被引用文献数

1 6

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Pupil response reflects sympathetic activity and recent research has begun to study pupil response as a stress indicator. It is thought pupil response may be used as an indicator of stress and emotion. This study investigated whether pupil size reflects liking and interest which are Kansei activities. Fifteen adult subjects with normal vision were tested. The subjects' pupil responses were measured while looking at 32 images in random order. The images were digital color photos projected on a computer monitor depicting 16 models. Each model was shown with two expressions: 8 images of happy faces and 8 of neutral faces, and 8 images of angry faces and 8 of neutral faces. The subjects rated their liking and interest for each image using 5 point scales. This revealed that pupil size was significantly larger while viewing images rated as ‘dislike’ than while viewing images rated as ‘like’, over a period between 5 and 10 seconds after stimulus onset. Pupil size didn't reflect interest but liking. The results suggested that subjects physiologically relaxed while looking at images they like.

著者

大谷 毅 KIM KyoungOk 高橋 正人 乾 滋 森川 英明 高寺 政行

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, no.5, pp.629-668, 2014 (Released:2015-01-30)

参考文献数

65

被引用文献数

1 12

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In “Cool Japan,” the government has been trying to promote the internationalization of the fashion business by Japanese companies as a national policy since 2005. The aim has mostly failed, and only partially completed efforts have been confirmed. Consequently, the presence of the Japanese fashion business remains weak in the global fashion market. The purpose of this paper is to explain the cause. While the domestic fashion market has experienced rapid growth over the 50 years following World War II, fashion companies have not shown an interest in foreign markets. Designers of ready-to-wear apparel have followed the fashion styles of Paris and Milan. As long as fashion companies were realizing growing revenues, top management of large-scale fashion companies supported these trends. Top management did not delegate significant discretion for designs to the chief of design, and chief or creative directors had uncertain roles.As a result, designers may have lost their creativity in a commercial sense, and the chief of design is no longer responsible for sales. Top management has given more priority to modelisme than stylisme. Much interest was focused on mistakes in the product details rather than customer profiles. Senior management understood that we had efficiently conducted our fashion business in this manner.It became impossible to assume the risk associated with international market expansion. In the 1990s, the price of the property price in Tokyo decreased after collapse of the bubble economy. It attracted the famous fashion houses of Europe to the burgeoning commercial areas of Tokyo. On the other hand, Japanese entrepreneurs were unable to recover markets lost to the Europeans, even by expanding into foreign markets. Despotic leadership is necessary for the success of the fashion business. As for the company form, possession and management should be the same one. The entrepreneur should delegate the necessary discretion to the chief of design. The chief's discretion will depend on the decision premise, which precedes the first stage of fashion design. The design of fashion clothing will be added according to going through the manufacturing process. The virtual “design chain” is determined by the chief of design.The manufacturer of ready-to-wear is to “make to stock.” If nobody buy it, ready-to-wear would not exist, and the values are not found. The defects are caused at the design of the first stage. The cheif should owe its responsibility.This business depends on the sensibility or affection of humans, which is difficult to understand. However, the design chiefs of the textile manufacturers have promoted abduction about the decision premise of the chief designer at Maison. Therefore, marketing activities are being conducted aggressively. The role of a fashion designer of ready-to-wear clothing is different from that of an artist. From a large chaotic space, a “subset” is extracted. Subset is action space that is shared by certain people. It is assumed that a subset of these is represented by several people, model. Therefore, the task of the chief gives silhouette in this model. If we assume that the silhouette is supported by action space, sellable products can be designed. Action space may exist globally across the border. In many cases, global properties for global markets are lurking among these.

著者

宮原 佐智子 田和辻 可昌 松居 辰則

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, no.1, pp.109-119, 2017 (Released:2017-02-24)

参考文献数

23

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Many people have experienced that even long after their graduation, their school songs can still evoke nostalgia of their old school days. In this study, we proposed a psychological model of the generation mechanism underlying the school-song-evoked nostalgic feelings. Firstly, we extracted the terms characteristic of school songs from the lyrics of 156 Japanese school songs. Then, we investigated how the number of years that had elapsed since graduation influenced the degrees of school-song-evoked nostalgic feelings through questionnaires. Finally, we conducted an experiment in which the participants were asked to rate the “school-songness” of the lyrics of four existing school songs as well as an “average school song” which we made using the terms extracted at the first stage of the study. The results show that the “average school song” ranks highest, which implies the properness of our model.

著者

長坂 一郎

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, no.5, pp.609-614, 2016 (Released:2016-09-30)

参考文献数

20

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Since the 1960s, a number of engineering design theories and methodologies have been proposed aiming at explaining the nature of design activity scientifically. In this paper, we discuss what these engineering design theories could mean to fashion designers. Since, in the engineering design theories, the analysis - synthesis - evaluation (ASE) paradigm, which is believed to have originated in the process of mathematical proving and making scientific theories, is widely held, the theories could contribute the understanding of the nature of fashion design as far as the fashion design activity is rational in a scientific sense. However, in the fashion design process, designers develop and validate solutions to fulfill consumers' “body expression function” which largely involves subjective sensation. Therefore, the engineering design theories cannot be applied to the fashion design directly. After examining why it cannot be applied to the fashion design, we will discuss if there are any other ways to implement a theory of fashion design by referring to the Christopher Alexander later theory of design.

著者

北折 貴子 吉川 玲子

出版者

Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

雑誌

日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, no.4, pp.629-635, 2010 (Released:2016-11-30)

参考文献数

10

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Sugino Fashion College Costume Museum has exhibited an evening dress from Maison de Couture Worth. However, the display's continuation has been a matter of concern because of its deteriorated condition over the ages. In 2007 Sugino Fashion College launched a three-year project to copy the dress including the necessary investigation and study to accomplish this work. The project titled “An Investigation into the Origin of Modern Costumes: Copying of Worth's Dress” was applied for “Promotion of Upgraded Research at Private University” and was accepted. In March 2010 the project was completed and reported in a symposium. This paper focuses on the aesthetic experience in the dresses around the year of 1900 and compares with that in contemporary dresses. In the project, Worth's evening dress was copied using calico without changing the design as it fit the body of a woman in the present day. The copied dress was put on the mannequin and the difference in aesthetic experience was compared between the original dress and the copied one. By this comparison it was revealed that the design of Worth's evening dress can be perfectly applicable for the present-day figure.