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12Kansei EngineeringAdopting a scientific approach to personal sensitivity (kansei) to find reasons for taste in clothingDivision of Textile and Kansei EngineeringI am working to identify the values that motivate peoples’ emotions by focusing on clothing as the most familiar object in daily life. This effort includes developing new, previously unthinkable methods for evaluating value, for example by searching for factors that determine how people evaluate products and developing new evaluation devices. By taking a scientific approach to personal taste, my research creates opportunities for new products and businesses.Masayuki TakateraProfessorProfessor Takatera took his current position in 2006 after serving in the Faculty of Textile Science and Technology at Shinshu University as an assistant professor, senior assistant professor, and associate professor. His principal areas of research include design and evaluation of textiles and apparel and the application of kansei engineering to fashion.Kansei EngineeringMeasuring comfort and stress in the body and mind to create goods with new value (kansei value)Division of Textile and Kansei EngineeringData describing physiological responses by the brain, heart, and muscles can be obtained from human body. I believe it is possible to create a language to communicate the body's health or state of comfort or stress using this data. The research being carried out by my lab (in kansei measurement), which seeks to create a new system of measurement for communicating comfort by measuring data expressed by the body, is garnering attention in numerous industries.Masayoshi KamijoProfessorResearchers gauge a person’s emotional state based on her facial expressions (“attractive smile,” “sleepy face,” “fatigued face”). This research seeks to use facial expressions as an indicator of the state of comfort and stress in the body and mind.Professor Kamijo has earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in textile engineering and a doctoral degree in textile engineering from Shinshu University. He worked as an assistant professor at Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, and as an assistant professor and associate professor at Shinshu University before taking his current position. He is engaged in research into kansei measurement (measurement and instrumentation targeting human activity). Clothing design can use three-dimensional measurement, and clothing simulations can take into account clothing patterns and properties.We are developing methods to evaluate appearance, feel, and texture.Computers are used to create designs from ber to thread and from thread to cloth. Shown above is the nished item; below, a simulation.The automated draping system my lab is developing will make it easy and cheaper to create order-made clothing. I believe that such individually-oriented systems will become common in the future.Outlook for researchIn addition to working as engineers in charge of manufacturer product planning or development at educational institutions, product testing organizations, and research centers, graduates work as kansei engineering specialists in the areas of media, electronics, and home-use equipment.Outlook for students after graduationMy goal for the future is to develop intelligent clothing (IC). I wish to assess dierent types of comfort (while wearing clothing, riding in vehicles, sitting, and sleeping) by measuring a person’s level of comfort or stress while wearing IC.Outlook for researchKansei measurement is garnering attention in numerous industries, including automobiles, cosmetics, sleeping goods, housing, home appliances, writing supplies, and information. Graduates are active as engineers in research and development and planning and development.Outlook for students after graduationResearch seeks to evaluate comfort while driving by measuring the physiological activity of muscles and the heart.

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