Emotional Engineering, Vol. 6 by Shuichi Fukuda

Author:Shuichi Fukuda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

7.4 Understanding Sensibilities and Emotions Through Content-Oriented Approach

In order for computers to “understand” human beings, a research approach to elucidate human Kansei by creating artificial Kansei on a computer must be established. If we apply the concept of analysis-by-synthesis to AI research in the fields of science related to Kansei information processing (mainly psychology) first, we will begin to construct hypothetical artificial Kansei based on previously obtained knowledge. It is thought that knowledge of the intrinsic properties of human Kansei can be obtained by comparing artificial Kansei with actual human Kansei.

In order to compare artificial and human Kansei, it is necessary to consistently describe knowledge acquired in the engineering and scientific fields related to Kansei information processing, so as to establish a foundation. That is, if the modules and parameters of artificial Kansei and the knowledge constituting the artificial Kansei itself are described in a unified manner, the degree to which the artificial Kansei can reproduce the functions of human Kansei will become clear. Therefore, the proposal of a content-oriented approach to systematically unifying the knowledge handled in the related fields has been set as a research purpose, in order to understand human Kansei and to compose artificial Kansei. The knowledge used to construct artificial Kansei can be regarded as a domain model that is explicitly or implicitly assumed in engineering and scientific fields. The domain model in Kansei information processing handles the mental world regarded as the interior of the human mind in addition to the physical world, similar to the engineering domain ontology [11] described above.

In order to uniformly describe the domain model in the fields of engineering and science related to Kansei information processing, it is necessary to construct a conceptual basis for cross-cutting knowledge utilizing informatics and psychology. One of the problems here is that the methods used to acquire sensibility in those research fields differ. These differences seem to originate from different conceptualizations of the human mind; thus, it is necessary to set a viewpoint that allows researchers to obtain a common understanding. It is difficult to cover all specific research subjects related to the field of informatics and psychology in order to establish a reasonable approach to handling the mental world by analyzing the target area. Therefore, in this chapter, we examine the knowledge (domain model) and concept (ontology) that form the specification by limiting the objects described as knowledge. Although the problem targeted here is to develop methods for computers to understand humans, we do not necessarily aim to clarify knowledge and concepts for all research subjects in informatics and psychology. By limiting the specific research subjects, we aim to show that the content-oriented approach is useful for human understanding.

In this chapter, we focus on the concept of color emotion, which is a kind of esthetic sensibility to color, and set it as a target area in order to grasp the behavior of human Kansei. In addition to esthetics, the concept of esthetic sensibility has also been adopted as a subject of research

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