The Study of Application of Latent Semantic Analysis in User-Centered Design
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Chen, Yu-Rong
Abstract
With the technological advances of modern products and high competitive global market, consumption patterns gradually change from "Manufacturer-Centered Design" into "User-Centered Design", Among a large variety of products, consumer usually choose types of products which can best describe their individual characteristics and personal styles. Therefore, this study proposes a new “ User-Centered Design” method by using Latent Semantic analysis to help designers capture consumers’ needs more effectively. Through the analysis of semantic space of products, the proposed method will transform consumers’ needs into physical product design element.
In this study, a two-stage survey was conducted. The main purpose of the first questionnaire is to construct at semantic space of the design elements, and explore users’ feelings concerning product elements. The first questionnaire uses the Taguchi method to construct the target products, and uses six pairs of Kansei words to describe consumers’ emotion. The main purpose of the second questionnaire was using the semantic space of the design elements constructed by the first stage- to transform users’ needs into the target products.In this stage, the questionnaire is also used to predict products which customers want.
Subjects
Forward User-Centered Design
Kansei Engineering System
Latent Semantic Analysis
Type
thesis
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