Home applications of Kansei engineering in Japan: An overview
M. Nagamachi
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AbstractNagamachi founded kansei engineering in the 1970’s, which aimed at a Human-Centered Approach especially as to human emotion, in product design and development, services, and work improvement. Since then, he has developed over 60 kinds of product, generally in response to assignments from client companies. Among them, as part of product development, he has produced many home furniture and systems for promoting healthy home living, among which handrail, door knob, room design, bath tub, toilet, kitchen, and mattress. Artificial intelligence has been applied to some of these. Here, kansei products related to home living systems are described, but these are not aimed at integrating into a complete ergonomics and kansei engineering unit house. The present article describes ergonomics and kansei engineering applied to human home living, including artificial intelligent applications.Keywords: ergonomics, kansei engineering, healthy living, artificial intelligence
M. Nagamachi (2016). Home applications of Kansei engineering in Japan: An overview. Gerontechnology, 15(4), 209-215
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2016.15.4.005.00