Kansei-engineering based Collaborative Design through SNS-like Information-sharing System

An information system has been designed and implemented for information sharing, communicating and decision making in order to realize effective design collaboration through network-based smart community in a relatively short period. It is SNS-like but domain-limited because of its usage. Decision making sometimes becomes complicated and time-consuming so that it had better employ Kansei-engineering which can be applied into decision-making process of collaborative design. In the case of building large-scale poster for college promotion and the publicity of entrance examination, such a product should be built up by means of the above information sharing and communicating system. Some photos have be taken for candidates of poster, be put on exhibition with our system, and then be shared among members of the determining committee, namely collaborative design members on the system. This paper reports system configuration and its application to real task of poster design. The system can play a role to provide environment of collaborative design for the above committee's members. By means of the system, real collaborative design for poster building can be supported in a reasonable way.