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Kansei engineering, also known as Kansei ergonomics or emotional engineering, aims at analyzing and incorporating customer’s feeling and demands into product function and product design. The chapter described a system called ProEmotion for the purpose of assessing the Kansei aspects of a product by considering design attributes of a product. Neural Network is used to process Kansei words. The system has been successfully implemented to ascertain gender inclination of a mobile phone. Principal parameters of a mobile are considered, that is, length, width, thickness and mass. The system can inform gender inclination of a mobile phone with accuracy up to 90 %. This is based on a set of 92 mobile phone samples from the five major mobile phone manufacturers.
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Wang, W.WL., Hsiao, HH., Xu, X.W. (2013). ProEmotion—A Tool to Tell Mobile Phone’s Gender . In: Fukuda, S. (eds) Emotional Engineering vol. 2. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4984-2_7
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