A HYBRID KANSEI ENGINEERING SYSTEM USING THE SELF-ORGANIZING MAP NEURAL NETWORK

Authors

  • C.S. Teh Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
  • C.P. Lim School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Science Malaysia, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33736/jita.53.2007

Keywords:

Decision support system, Kansei Engineering, Self-Organizing Map, interior design.

Abstract

Kansei Engineering (KE), a technology founded in Japan initially for product design, translates human feelings into design parameters. Although various intelligent approaches to objectively model human functions and the relationships with the product design decisions have been introduced in KE systems, many of the approaches are not able to incorporate human subjective feelings and preferences into the decision-making process. This paper proposes a new hybrid KE system that attempts to make the machine-based decision-making process closely resembles the real-world practice. The proposed approach assimilates human perceptive and associative abilities into the decision-making process of the computer. A number of techniques based on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) neural network are employed in the backward KE system to reveal the underlying data structures that are involved in the decision-making process. A case study on interior design is presented to evaluate the efficacy of the proposed approach. The results obtained demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in developing an intelligent KE system which is able to combine human feelings and preferences into its decision making process.

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2016-04-26

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Teh, C., & Lim, C. (2016). A HYBRID KANSEI ENGINEERING SYSTEM USING THE SELF-ORGANIZING MAP NEURAL NETWORK. Journal of IT in Asia, 2(1), 23–38. https://doi.org/10.33736/jita.53.2007

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