Kansei engineering and its application on intelligent nursing bed design

Abstract

With the development of industrial design, traditional requirements of reasonable function and aesthetic appearance are insufficient for nowadays customers' needs, which leads to the proposition of Kansei Engineering (KE). This paper introduces Kansei and six types of KE methods, and provides a design application based on Hybrid KE system and computer data analysis to evaluate and improve an intelligent home nursing bed by principal component analysis and cluster analysis, of which accurately and efficiently reflected the performance of the design scheme in six pairs of key indicators. The open challenges and future directions of KE are discussed as well, suggestion of its future study is offered for better knowledge and quick understanding of KE by relevant scholars.