Collaborative Design Support System Using KANSEI Visualization -- Application for Graphic Design

In a collaborative design team, it is necessary to understand other person’s taste on designing. Such a taste, we call KANSEI, is too subjective and intuitive to perform mutual understanding. We have been developing a computational modeling method of KANSEI to visualize the feature of KANSEI of each person and to support mutual understanding and a collaborative design work. As an example of collaborative designing, we are focusing on web page designing. We consider that color coordination is an important and dominant factor of the intuitive image of the design. Thus, we analyzed the relationship between color coordination and the impression words for the image. We have developed a collaborative design support system with such a mechanism to suit to each person’s KANSEI feature. This paper introduces our overall system with its subsystems, which are design modification facility on color arrangement and visualization facility in 2D map style of KANSEI feature.